Vali myers

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Vali Myers was a flamboyant Australian fantasy artist who worked in pen and ink and watercolour as well as being a nightclub dancer. She divided her life between her adopted home of Melbourne, the Hotel Chelsea in New York City, Paris, and a 14th-century cottage in Italy.

Vali Myers

The Art of Vali Myers As a child at a bush school in the Australian outback, Vali neglected lessons preferring to draw in the back of exercise books visions from her imagination. Self-taught, her very personal technique evolved slowly over the years. Vali’s drawings are created with the finest English pen nib (Gillott’s Crowquill 659) ... Read more

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A Vali Myers print or her new book.

Vali Myers was never going to be ordinary. Her talent, wayward spirit and shock of flame-red hair marked her out for a life less ordinary. Ordinary was nice and nice was boring and Vali Myers hated boring. But Vali had come from ordinary. She was born in Canterbury, Sydney, in 1930 to a wireless operator father and a talented violinist mother. Her mother had given up her career with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to raise her family. Vali watched in growing horror as her mother slowly fell to…

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The new book, "Night Flower", features samples of Myers' artworks and recollections from critics who pay homage to her black ink legacy.