Historical information

View of the old Burgoyne store looking south-east across Main Road, Eltham near the intersection with Bridge Street. Original painting donated to Eltham Library.

Greensborough resident Ted Dalton (d 2016), migrated to Australia from Liverpool, England, in 1965. He commenced formal tuition in paitning and drawing in 1973, with Leslie Sinclair at Molesworth and later Bill Caldwell and Maxwell Wilks and then Graham Moore. Dalton won many prizes with his paintings. In his most successful period, 1988–1989, he won five monetary prizes in Rotary Shows at Kew, Preston, Kilmore, Seymour and Ivanhoe. During the same period he won the Ernest Suter Award, in an internal exhibition of the Heidelberg and District Artists’ Society. He produced paintings and drawings ranging from pastel and oil paintings of landscapes, through figure studies and portraits to still life studies and miniatures. Dalton was amember of the Diamond Valley Arts Society.
Source: Undated newspaper article: Ted's to fly solo at Cato, Diamond Valley News

Physical description

Digital scan of painting
c.1980
oil on board
44.5 x 59.5 cm
signed lower right