DAWSON

STORYTIME - 1981, 1981

51 x 76 (frame: 53.5 x 78.5) cm

Oil on canvas; Signed, Dated & Titled verso.

Provenance: Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne.

Exhibited: Gallery A. 

Painted while Dawson was living on her organic farm in New South Wales, “Storytime” captures the warmth and narrative intimacy that mark her later still lifes and figurative scenes. By the 1980s, Dawson’s work had become honed on the details of country life—tabletop arrangements, quiet domestic rituals, and folklore woven into everyday experience. This painting likely invites viewers into an intimate domestic world, using muted tones and gentle compositional structure to convey a sense of familial story, togetherness, and the subtle unfolding of rural time.

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