Anne Marie Hall 'Motherly Portrait' contemporary Ann Thomson is a Brisbane

Ann Thomson is a Brisbane born

Since the early 2000s

a visual vessel for the metaphysical

Dimensions: 39 x 26 cm (height x width)

Dimensions: 30 x 22 cm

Anne Marie Hall 'Motherly Portrait' contemporary Ann Thomson is a BrisbaneIt is unknown who the subject of Anne Marie Halls Motherly Portrait is. The woman is well captured a distant sadness to her eyes, blooms of pink colouring her cheeks, ringed by a halo of grey curls. In an air of wisdom tinged with melancholy, Hall evokes a maternal figure. Motherly Portrait was drawn in 1976 while Halls then husband, artist John Perceval, was committed to Larundel Mental Asylum on the outskirts of Melbourne. Hall would visit him and