The award-winning painter, who passed away this week aged 95, sucked the marrow out of life — and encouraged others to do the same.
Alderton thinks not: "Because in this art world there's too much vanilla.
Olsen's son Tim Olsen also spotted Cape's work at the graduate show that night, and offered her an exhibition at his gallery. Olsen Gallery still represents her."He was really supportive and encouraging about just doing what I wanted to do, not worrying about what other people think, and about the enjoyment of the process," Cape says.
"He talked about going to the studio for a play. That's what I do; I go out into the bush and play with the elements and nature. For both of us, the process of making the work is the best bit, rather than the end result.""He used to do this beautiful thing where he'd just randomly call me and recite a poem to me that inspired him, and that he thought I'd really like and would suit my work or where I was at or just inspire me," Cape says.
Kelly says Olsen's sometimes vast canvases opened the way for her to use large scale to communicate "through gesture with a bodily response, not just held in the head and wrist".
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