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Robyn Baker
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Robyn Baker continues to explore Auntie, the very special Lillian May Gunthorpe.

Auntie is the major influence in Robyn's life. Robyn says she will paint her forever. Early in 2009, Robyn drove west starting in Charters Towers where this story begins. Her reason for this journey was to discover more about her obsession and to try and discover what drove her Aunt to take up with the mongrel. A bit of English rubbish sent out to England's dumping ground for undesirable aristocrats.

She visited outback towns where Auntie lived and worked as Matron Gunthorpe for thirty years. The experience was taxing and rewarding. Many hospitals and cemeteries were visited. However the exact spot where Auntie met her husband, the mongrel Sir Tom Stuart-Gregory was not located. But the town where she met the mongrel was experienced with lunch of delicious pasties and rich peach-blossoms for dessert.

The hospital that she governed with an iron-will was observed reverently.

 

 

Tom and Auntie

Gallery 314 Richmond Uniting Church 314 Church Street Richmond


October November 2009

 

Auntie finds Tom at Slippery's pub
Auntie and the baby

 

Auntie and the child
Auntie and the old ringer
Auntie cooks on the piano
Auntie plays the piano
Auntie Dreams Of The Baby
Tom and Auntie get married
Tom sick again
Tryptich