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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.

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

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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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