Breakthrough!

A really cool thing has happened. A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how I was trying to get in touch with a woman called Rosalind Hollinrake, who was pretty much solely responsible for bringing Clarice Beckett, my favourite painter, back into public consciousness, and who wrote the only biography that exists about her.

Anyway, somebody left a comment on that post, and has passed on Rosalind Hollinrake's contact details to me! The way this woman came to see my blog is pretty amazing too. This is what she wrote to me today--

Strange how things happen!
I was visiting Ballarat and their Fine Arts Gallery only last weekend and saw a Clarice Beckett painting. I had heard of the artist before from my mother who was an admirer of her work.
Then out of the blue I received a call from Rosalind Hollinrake at the start of this week. She is researching for her PhD and was given my number, from "someone in my family" who she had found by searching the white pages, as a possible source of information re a character who appears in a couple of Clarice's paintings. She thinks he may be an ancestor of mine. This of course stirred my curiosity and I decided to Google both Rosalind and Clarice and there I found your Blog and read of your search for Rosalind.

How cool is that? I am very excited, and can't wait to write to her. I have no idea what I will say though.