Beatrice DARBYSHIRE   1901  - 1988

Born in Perth, Darbyshire studied privately with Henri von Raalte and later at his school. In 1921 she exhibited in an exhibition of the Western Institute of Artists. The Cowshed, Balingup c1920, one of her first drypoints, was selected for the British Empire Exhibition in London 1924-1925 and acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum. She was encouraged by von Raalte to study art in London and enrolled at the School of Engraving at the Royal College of Art. Having gained her diploma in 1927, Darbyshire returned to Perth and devoted herself to drawing and etching. In addition to landscapes, she produced many portraits including those of Professor Walter Murdoch and Katherine Susannah Pritchard. Her favourite landscape subjects were found around Fremantle and Balingup in the southwest.

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