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Rebecca meets a 90 year porcelain artist, Ethel Jagelman, who shares with us her background as a porcelain painter and shows us how her fine detail and intricate painting skills have refined with age.
Ethel has been painting most of her life. In the 1920's, her father painted Bushells Tea and Lever Brothers advertisements on windows. She learnt basic colour and painting skills by watching her father. In this time, colours were not pre-mixed but were made from powder. Ethel believes this has contributed to her painting knowledge and understanding of colour principles.
At 16 years of age, Ethel worked for an art company which prepared work for advertising. Ethel's role was to hand paint each colour for the advertisment. She also drew shoes for the 'Jo Gardner' shoe shop and painted faces on department store mannequins for Wilker and Jones.
While Ethel was working in an office, she started to teach painting. Each year David Jones department store held a painting exhibition which involved Ethel's works. She also exhibits at the Castle Hill Show and was a judge at the Royal Easter Show.
In 1970, Ethel was President of the NSW China Painters Association. During this time, Ethel and 13 other china painters were invited to exhibit in the USA. On arrival at the airport, a member from the USA China Painters Association came to meet the group on arrival. The member was expecting Chinese China Painters. As soon as Ethel returned from the US, she related the story to other members and changed the name to the NSW Porcelain Painters Association. Ethel was made a life member of the Association.
Recently, Ethel was approached by the ACT China Painters Association and according to their records, Ethel, at 90 years of age (91 in October) is the oldest porcelain painter still actively painting. They asked her to submit a piece with an Australian theme, to be exhibited at the 'Porcelain Arts up to the New Millennium' show held at the Canberra Museum and Gallery from June 8 to September 3, 2001.
Ethel has sent a 'Lyre Bird' piece painted in the 1960s. She is currently in the process of painting nine china mugs for each of her grandchildren.
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More Info
On-glaze Artist Association
tel: 02 6286 9311
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