From Herbert Badham to Matthew Martin: the fine art of drawing & painting pools
Last weekend when I visited the State Library of NSW’s Paintings from the Collection exhibition, I was taken with a painting called The Swimming Enclosure by artist Herbert Badham. It’s thought to be a depiction of the netted swimming area at Parsley Bay in Vaucluse near where the artist and his wife Enid lived, and in the[…]
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Lovely memories John. My father learnt to swim there but many years before 1964. I grew up swimming at a…