Sybil Craig 'Crawling Vines' fantastical Against a mottled

Against a mottled

This work was printed at Marnling Press

his work brims with life

Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm

Master print Satish Sharma described working with Blakman as “magicians leading each other from madness to madness” and etching as “like a man-eating tiger - once it gets hold of you it won't let go

Sybil Craig 'Crawling Vines' fantastical Against a mottledArt historian Mary Eagle once described Australian modernist Sybil Craig as devastatingly direct and almost overwhelmingly vital. She was born a tomboy to affluent parents and in 1945, was the third woman ever to be appointed an official war artist, the first to paint women working in the munitions factories. As an official war artist, she produced bright, vivacious scenes of women at work grounded in her pedagogy under the esteemed Bernard Hall and