Australian House & Garden

Jane Guthleben

“I’m inspired by Gaudi, as his buildings are so unique… I adore the Dutch still-life paintings of Rachel Ruysch. And I’m very inspired by colour.”

in East Gippsland, Victoria. The farm was fairly isolated – it was about 30km to the nearest town – so I spent a lot of time on my own and did a lot of craft and drawing to fill in the time. My mum taught me a lot of different crafts, such as knitting, spinning, crochet and sewing, and I would spend hours doing pencil drawings, copying portraits from magazines. I started selling my pencil drawings

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