Wildflowers Bloomed To Brighten Artist's Life

Carmel Nicholson Aboriginal artist 1930-2005 UNLIKE many members of the stolen generation, the artist Carmel Marie Nicholson maintained contact with her mother, Rosie. Once every couple of years, Rosie would visit Nicholson at the convent where she lived at Mitchelton, and Nicholson wrote to her mother every month. This contact later influenced the artist's paintings.