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3 unusual facts about Thea Proctor


Thea Proctor

She taught Adrian Feint the techniques of woodblock-engraving 1926–28, and like her he produced covers for the Ure Smith magazine Home.

When her parents separated in 1892, she and her mother moved to Bowral to stay with her grandmother who encouraged her interest in painting.

She studied at Sydney Art School from 1896 under Julian Ashton then St John's Wood School in London in 1903; they became lifelong friends and she modelled for him many times.



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