In our series on artwork in Australian homes, Ally Smith shows us the painting she was given first on a postcard – then on canvas
n 2017, Ally Smith’s mother wrote a birthday message to her daughter’s fiance. The note was penned on the back of a promotional postcard for an art exhibition that took place in 2009. “When I saw this birthday card, I was just so taken by the painting it featured,” Smith says.Dog on Swan Street, an oil painting streetscape of Richmond station’s rail bridge in, is the work of Cathy Drummond. Later, Smith learned Drummond was her mother’s old art school buddy.
It gave her mother an idea: she would get in touch with Drummond and buy a painting as a wedding present. “Mum thought it would be a really sentimental gift,” Smith says. The artist was prepared to part with it and so the painting – and the story of its acquisition – became part of family lore.
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