Watercolour painting by Australia Australian folklorist Ron Edwards (1930 - 2008),signed 2001

This is a beautiful watercolor original painting by Australian folklorist Ron Edwards(1930-2008), signed 2001
31/23.5cm
Painting 11/16cm
About:
Ron Edwards was a well known Australian folklorist, artist and author. He lived near Cairns, outside Kuranda in the rainforests of Far North Queensland and spent most of his time writing, painting and publishing. He is probably best known for his series of books on Australian bushcrafts and collections of Australian folklore.

Ron was born and grew up in Victoria. His artistic abilities were soon recognised and he began his art training at the Gordon Institute of Technology in Geelong, completing it at Swinburne Art School, Melbourne. In 1950, he founded what was to be the Rams Skull Press - Australia’s largest publisher of books on Australian folklore and bushcrafts.

Ron writes: “I was born in Geelong, Victoria, 10-10-1930 and brought up in a small coastal village which is now a tourist resort but was then only a tiny community of fishermen and a few small farmers. The farms were so small that everything was still being done by hand and horse in the old way. Crops were cut by scythe and sickle, hay was tied into sheaves and then thrown onto the wagon with pitchforks before being taken back to the farm and built into a haystack.”