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Salcombe Art / Art / Postcard from Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) / John Olsen

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I cannot recall a time when I didn’t draw. I must have been very young, as I remember crayoning and enjoying creating new images on paper strewn across the kitchen table.

A kingfisher spotted while on holiday near Totnes was one of my earliest inspirations, and a gift of coloured pencils in the 1950s provided more fun for me than the humble HB pencil. Later, like the rest of my generation, the illustrations by Frank Hampson in the Eagle comic inspired me into interplanetary doodling.

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