Kathlyn Margaret Moore OAM

Kath Ballard 2002

• General Notes
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    Third child.
    
    Highly successful water colour painter.
    Many major exhibitions.
    Arts advisor to the Victorian Government (John Cain premier).
    Arts advisor to the Caulfield City Council. 
    President of the Victorian Artists Society. 
    Foundation member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists, and of the Old Watercolour Society (Victorian branch).
    Awarded the OAM (Member of the Order of Australia) for services to the arts in 1999.
    Appointed Patron of the Water Colour Society of Victoria (previously called the Old Water Colour Society - Victoria) 2008.
    
    Educated at St. Catherine's College in Melbourne.  During WWII was evacuated to Marylands guest house in Marysville for several years.
    Later went through the fine art course at Swinburne Technical School when the course was in its infancy.  Kath became one of the first student representatives at Swinburne.
    She later worked in several graphic art studios where she met Stan.
    Subsequently she had a very active career as a watercolour painter, art teacher and in art politics.
    She became well-known as an "artist's artist" and was reckoned to be in the same league as the great watercolourist of the 1930's J.J. Hilder.  This gave her much satisfaction in later life.
    Always one to get her teeth into things, she has a very strong sharp mind and very definite opinions - which were often but not always right.
    Truth and integrity matter deeply to her.  This is reflected in the simple mastery of her painting which gets to the very essence of the subject.
    
    Always a rebel and a feminist activist long before the concept was even born, Kath was known to say that she did not need religion because she found God in nature all around her.
    
    In her youth rode horses at fox hunts and in show jumping.  Famously was photographed falling off a horse at the Royal Melbourne Show Jumps - this made the front page of the Herald Sun newspaper.
    

Husband's Pictures

Stan Ballard