Judith Monica O’Conal-Prinz is a renowned artist in Sydney, her main genre being portraiture, although she also paints landscapes and still life. This is the story of her life from her early days living in the inner city through to her life as a portrait painter. It shows her early upbringing as a socialist, which she still strongly follows today. Her love of nature and fauna is deeply embedded in her. Since meeting her second husband she has extensively travelled overseas and in particular to Italy to study the Great Masters of the Renaissance. This is her story.
In Self-Portrait of a Painter, a Triptych Memoirs, journey through the fascinating life of a remarkable woman, born to an Irish mother and Jewish father in the vibrant, working-class neighbourhood of The Rocks in Sydney. From her roots in a Socialist household committed to social justice, she defies...