Val Landa Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1940 -

Val Landa has been painting and drawing since the early sixties when she studied with the world-renowned Stanislau Rapotec. From 1961 to 1984 she studied at the Royal Art Society (portraiture), East Sydney Tech College (now the National Art School), and was a member of a weekly Life-Drawing group at Hunter’s Hill, which included amongst its members of about 8 people, Nora Heyson, Franklin Bennett, Michael Taylor, and other well-known artists.

During this period, she exhibited and did workshops, worked at Gladesville Hospital Pottery Studio in ceramics, and helped set up the studio there. She also studied sculpture for three years with Jean Broome-Norton, specialisingin portraits and the figure. She also exhibited in private galleries.