TALENTED NEW ZEALAND ARTIST
FOUR PICTURES IN LONDON EXHIBITION (Rec. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 7. Mrs Hortense Kelly, a slim, youth-ful-looking New Zealander, has four pictures in the Leicester Galleries’ New Year exhibition, states the ‘ Evening Standard.’ As a girl she wanted to be an artist, but instead she married one of New Zealand’s leading sportsmen, Felix Kelly, who died two years ago. Her son Felix became an artist, serving with the R.A.F. After her husband’s death Mrs Kelly started to paint pictures, which' are mainly poetic landscapes with a visionary, dream-like quality. She always refused to sell her pictures, and put no prices on her canvases in the exhibition,
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Evening Star, Issue 25994, 8 January 1947, Page 7
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110TALENTED NEW ZEALAND ARTIST Evening Star, Issue 25994, 8 January 1947, Page 7
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