Dismantling 'the museum', and the further excavations of my family history.

It's not your everyday Estate to deal with. Collections across many themes, and that is not
including my family's heirlooms.

All a bit overwhelming, I've often felt terribly confused, the house was like a Margaret Olley
house, and so before the shifting of anything had to be recorded with photographic journalism.

This was also the way to deal with the garden. Her sacred places and spaces, not necessarily
mine, but I got it. Family traditions also employed here, writing and documenting, photography.

Heavy responsibility, to respect what I had been left with. My three children not quite able
to grasp the significance of it all yet, being still 18 x 2 and 23.

So I make executive decisions for all of us. I know there will be some errors and regret,
because it is too hard to store or display all. So much. Both my parents collectors.

Some goods donated, aviaries to WIRES, a suitcase owned by Annette Kellerman to The
Annette Kellerman Aquatic Centre, a hand made Amish doll to an Amish family, made by
my mother.

As the pics get ordered and archived, captioned where I can, it starts to grind slowly towards
some order. Two lifetime collections of photography and associated equipment. An archive
building on my Great Aunt's creative adventures. Personally important to me as a fellow artist.

It continues, my own life on hold for a while, it's endlessly fascinating and terribly distracting.

More Charlotte - part 4

Here are some more of her artworks. I now have to preserve them archivally.

Now have enough to start forming a digital archive, which I will share with Bathurst
Historical Society and Powerhouse Museum, where her Mum's wedding dress
is currently on public exhibition in 'Clothes Encounters.'

It is the one, you can see online, - 'When Hannah met Alfred', her parents.

 This was in with hers, not hers, but maybe a contemporary, a friend she went out 

painting with? or an Art teacher? It is very bright and appears to be Gouache, or poster paint.

 This is a grand gate post, she did do a painting of Government House in Sydney, further research needed.

 This is quite fanciful, very quaint, and has been in a frame at some point, as it is still on it's backing board.

 Is this Bathurst? It could be in the late 1800s or early 1900s.

 Another artist's work again in with her collection. Gertrude E. Brown.

 We could possibly research this bridge.

 Farm buildings and a detail.

 This was done when she was at school with pen and ink. It is extremely brittle now.

 The detail and precision is quite amazing.

 The only figurative work I have found to date. Who is it? Below another detail 

of 'Spring' my favourite season of the year too!

The Lost Artist - Charlotte Adlam Part 3

Have finally photographed most of the watercolours of Charlotte's.

There are more in existence, my Aunt, also Charlotte, Mum's sister,
was given some, she gave one to her daughter, Jane, my cousin.

I have some more, and some crafts of hers. Also her childhood chair.

 A quiet creek, with someone gathering wildflowers in the background. Where? Maybe Bathurst?

 My Mother used to holiday at Patonga or Pearl Beach. could this be there?

 Are these buildings the family's old farm or somewhere in the district?

 Is this Sydney heads? Love the old steamship.

 Only one is signed, but assume all hers.