Face is familiar, but can't remember the name yet.

Clue time!

He was an artist.

Sheba wrote:

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Wish I was 5 Years younger. 

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 Don't we all !!!

Big Gorilla wrote:

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He's a writer: John  Bowlby

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 Not John Bowlby.

Not Pro Hart.

Sheba wrote:

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Santa wrote:

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Not Pro Hart.

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 Didn't think so.  Still can't get him though.  May-be tomorrow.      Come on people.  One of you must know him. 

 

Hugh Sawrey ?

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Not Hugh Sawry.

Well known for his landscapes, he was not a member of the Heidelberg school.

Sheba wrote:

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Arthur Boyd.

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Arthur Boyd it is Sheba, who's next?

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE (24 July 1920 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as The Expulsion (194748),^[1] now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Having a strong social conscience, Boyd's work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame.^[2]

Boyd was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Clifton Pugh, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Charles Blackman.

Thought she'd be gone by now.  

Her name is in the properties of the image Sheba, never heard of her.

She was an Aussie Artist, who resided in the Kings' Cross area of Sydney, and earned an unusual reputation.  If no one gets her tonight, I'll change her tomorrow night.

Correct BG.   Who's next ?

Rosaleen Miriam Norton (2 October 1917 5 December 1979),^[1] who used the name of Thorn, was a New Zealand-born Australian artist and occultist, in the latter capacity adhering to a form of pantheistic / Neopagan Witchcraft largely devoted to the mythological Greek god Pan. She lived much of her later life in the bohemian area of Kings Cross, Sydney, leading her to be termed the "Witch of Kings Cross" in some of the tabloids,^[2] and from where she led her own coven of Witches.

Her paintings, which have been compared to those of British occult artist Austin Osman Spare,^[3] often depicted images of supernatural entities such as pagan gods and demons, sometimes involved in sexual acts. These caused particular controversy in Australia during the 1940s and '50s, when the country "was both socially and politically conservative" with Christianity as the dominant faith and at a time when the government "promoted a harsh stance on censorship."^[2] For this reason the authorities dealt with her work harshly, with the police removing some of her work from exhibitions, confiscating books that contained her images, and attempting to prosecute her for public obscenity on a number of occasions.

According to her later biographer, Nevill Drury, "Norton's esoteric beliefs, cosmology and visionary art are all closely intertwined and reflect her unique approach to the magical universe." She was inspired by "the 'night' side of magic", emphasising darkness and studying the Qliphoth, alongside forms of sex magic which she had learned from the writings of English occultist Aleister Crowley.^[

Morning Ken.

Pablo Picasso.

Thanks Ken.

And this is?

Spot on Sheba! it is Nolan, who's up next?

Biography

Sir Sidney Nolan was one of Australias most significant modernist artists, best known for his depictions of the history and mythology of bush life in Australia. His paintings, often rich in colour, striking in composition and deliberately awkward in technique, represent Australian stories of loss, failure and capture, featuring figures such as the bushranging Kelly Gang, shipwreck victim Eliza Fraser and the explorers Burke and Wills. Nolans iconic paintings of the Kelly Gang contributed to the development of the image of Ned Kelly as a symbol for Australian history and identity.

Nolan studied at the National Gallery of Victorias School of Art in 1934 and 1936 but educated himself primarily through books on Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and the surrealists. From 1938 he was encouraged and supported by art patrons Sunday and John Reed. Their house, Heide, in the outer Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg (now Heide Museum of Modern Art), was a meeting place for the avant-garde group known as the Angry Penguins, named after the radical cultural journal. The group included the artists Albert Tucker, Joy Hester, John Perceval and Arthur Boyd. The Angry Penguins sought to modernise Australian art and poetry by adopting spontaneous and visionary processes influenced by surrealism.