Happy 80th, Annette Macarthur-Onslow! (Australian writer/illustrator: "Uhu," 1969)

[leno...@yahoo.com]

Born in Sydney, she now lives in Gloucestershire, England.

About "Uhu" (pronounced Yoo-Hoo - the true story of a captive owl's life and death):

"Story of pet owl who taught owners that owls are not all fierce, impersonal, predatory creatures, they also like company, having their heads scratched and etc."......."The author and artist Annette Macarthur-Onslow having found the fledgling own beneath a tree where it had fallen, hand reared the bird where he proved to be an endearing creature, generally quiet and courteous, neither respectable or industrious, but utterly himself and a Mozart fan into the bargain."....."The little owl came and went, between May and September, like a feather on a puff of wind. upsetting our whole existence, grubbying the furniture, rearranging the house and temporarily banishing the cat."


Awards: "Australian Book of the Year Award, 1970, for Uhu; honorable mention, International Biennale of Illustration, Bratislava, Czechoslavakia, 1970."

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1028&bih=469&q=annette+%22macarthur+onslow%22&oq=annette+%22macarthur+onslow%22&gs_l=img.3...1140.1140.0.1686.1.1.0.0.0.0.328.328.3-1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.7.img.WcUlr0AHAH8
(book covers)

http://www.canberra.edu.au/lurees/publications/notes-books-authors
(scroll almost all the way down to see her photo from 1980 - she's the second one from the right)

From answers.com:

"Australian illustrator who creates detailed line drawings in carefully researched and expressionistic interpretations of nature. She has contributed illustrations to many overseas writers' books, including Circus Boy (1960) and Animal Stories (1961) by Ruth Manning-Saunders. Birds: Poems (1962) by Judith Wright gave her the opportunity to interpret her homeland, and she went on to illustrate Half a World Away (1962) and The Roaring 40 (1963), by Nan Chauncy, and Pastures of the Blue Crane (1964), by Hesba Brinsmead. She captures the beauty of the Australian alps in Winged Skis (1964), Silver Brumbies of the South (1965), and Silver Brumby Kingdom (1967) by Elyne Mitchell. Uhu (1969), set in the Cotswolds, tells the story of an accident-prone owl and won the 1970 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award. In Minnie (1971), an old white cat belonging to the same household wanders off and faces the terror of a fox and a dog before she is found. Trim (1975) is Matthew Flinders's account of his faithful and intelligent cat, written when Flinders was a prisoner on Mauritius. Round House (1975) illustrates a house in Gloucestershire and The Giant Bamboo Happening (1982) interprets the twelve days of Christmas through magical events in a garden."



WRITINGS:
Author and illustrator:
•Camden Park Estate: Australia's Oldest Pastoral Property, Menagle, 1959.

•Uhu (juvenile), Ure Smith, 1969, Knopf, 1970.

•Minnie (juvenile), Rand McNally, 1971.

•Round House, Collins, 1975.
("The first three years of the author's time in her newly-found rural cottage in Gloucestershire where the unchanged English countryside was slowly beginning to reverberate with the intrusion of the twentieth century.")

Illustrator:

•Ruth Manning-Sanders, Animal Stories, Roy, 1968.
("True stories of extraordinary animals. Includes Circus Animals.")

•Hesba Fay Binsmead, Pastures of the Blue Crane, Oxford University Press, 1970.
("Ryl was sixteen yrs old and she was alone. There was no one to care what became of her, no-where she could call home. But then she discovered that she had a relative living - her grandfather Dusty - and that under the terms of her father's will they were joint owners of a farm! Although Ryl did not know it, she was on the brink of a wonderful new life in which she was to unravel a strange mystery connected with her past, to develop as a person, and to become fully alive for the very first time. ")

•Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank, Oxford University Press, 1971.
(1964 Carnegie Medal. "On a camping trip to Nordy Bank, the site of a Welsh Border Iron Age fort, Bron changed from her outgoing self, and the frightened and hungry stray dog who visited the children took on a prehistoric wolf-like character.")

•Andrew Barton Paterson, The Man From Snowy River, Collins, 1977.
("This is one of the best known poems by Australia's most famous and beloved bushland balladeer that tells the story of a horse round-up in steep hilly country to try to find a valuable lost colt that had escaped from a station (a ranch) to join the wild bush horses.")

•Mathew Flinders, Trim, Collins, 1978.
("Trim, 'the best and most illustrious of his race', was the much-loved cat who accompanied Matthew Frinders on several of his famous voyages in the early 19th Century. On an ill-fated return to England Trim and Flinders were held by the French on the island of Mauritius, where Flinders wrote Trim's story during his seven years of captivity.")

•The Giant Bamboo Happening, J. Ferguson (Sydney, Australia), 1982.*.



Lenona.

[filma...@gmail.com]

On Friday, March 22, 2013 at 2:55:15 AM UTC+10:30, leno...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Born in Sydney, she now lives in Gloucestershire, England.
>
> About "Uhu" (pronounced Yoo-Hoo - the true story of a captive owl's life and death):
>
> "Story of pet owl who taught owners that owls are not all fierce, impersonal, predatory creatures, they also like company, having their heads scratched and etc."......."The author and artist Annette Macarthur-Onslow having found the fledgling own beneath a tree where it had fallen, hand reared the bird where he proved to be an endearing creature, generally quiet and courteous, neither respectable or industrious, but utterly himself and a Mozart fan into the bargain."....."The little owl came and went, between May and September, like a feather on a puff of wind. upsetting our whole existence, grubbying the furniture, rearranging the house and temporarily banishing the cat."
>
>
> Awards: "Australian Book of the Year Award, 1970, for Uhu; honorable mention, International Biennale of Illustration, Bratislava, Czechoslavakia, 1970."
>
> https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1028&bih=469&q=annette+%22macarthur+onslow%22&oq=annette+%22macarthur+onslow%22&gs_l=img.3...1140.1140.0.1686.1.1.0.0.0.0.328.328.3-1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.7.img.WcUlr0AHAH8
> (book covers)
>
> http://www.canberra.edu.au/lurees/publications/notes-books-authors
> (scroll almost all the way down to see her photo from 1980 - she's the second one from the right)
>
> From answers.com:
>
> "Australian illustrator who creates detailed line drawings in carefully researched and expressionistic interpretations of nature. She has contributed illustrations to many overseas writers' books, including Circus Boy (1960) and Animal Stories (1961) by Ruth Manning-Saunders. Birds: Poems (1962) by Judith Wright gave her the opportunity to interpret her homeland, and she went on to illustrate Half a World Away (1962) and The Roaring 40 (1963), by Nan Chauncy, and Pastures of the Blue Crane (1964), by Hesba Brinsmead. She captures the beauty of the Australian alps in Winged Skis (1964), Silver Brumbies of the South (1965), and Silver Brumby Kingdom (1967) by Elyne Mitchell. Uhu (1969), set in the Cotswolds, tells the story of an accident-prone owl and won the 1970 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award. In Minnie (1971), an old white cat belonging to the same household wanders off and faces the terror of a fox and a dog before she is found. Trim (1975) is Matthew Flinders's account of his faithful and intelligent cat, written when Flinders was a prisoner on Mauritius. Round House (1975) illustrates a house in Gloucestershire and The Giant Bamboo Happening (1982) interprets the twelve days of Christmas through magical events in a garden."
>
>
>
> WRITINGS:
> Author and illustrator:

> *Camden Park Estate: Australia's Oldest Pastoral Property, Menagle, 1959.
>
> *Uhu (juvenile), Ure Smith, 1969, Knopf, 1970.
>
> *Minnie (juvenile), Rand McNally, 1971.
>
> *Round House, Collins, 1975.

> ("The first three years of the author's time in her newly-found rural cottage in Gloucestershire where the unchanged English countryside was slowly beginning to reverberate with the intrusion of the twentieth century.")
>
> Illustrator:
>

> *Ruth Manning-Sanders, Animal Stories, Roy, 1968.

> ("True stories of extraordinary animals. Includes Circus Animals.")
>

> *Hesba Fay Binsmead, Pastures of the Blue Crane, Oxford University Press, 1970.

> ("Ryl was sixteen yrs old and she was alone. There was no one to care what became of her, no-where she could call home. But then she discovered that she had a relative living - her grandfather Dusty - and that under the terms of her father's will they were joint owners of a farm! Although Ryl did not know it, she was on the brink of a wonderful new life in which she was to unravel a strange mystery connected with her past, to develop as a person, and to become fully alive for the very first time. ")
>

> *Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank, Oxford University Press, 1971.

> (1964 Carnegie Medal. "On a camping trip to Nordy Bank, the site of a Welsh Border Iron Age fort, Bron changed from her outgoing self, and the frightened and hungry stray dog who visited the children took on a prehistoric wolf-like character.")
>

> *Andrew Barton Paterson, The Man From Snowy River, Collins, 1977.

> ("This is one of the best known poems by Australia's most famous and beloved bushland balladeer that tells the story of a horse round-up in steep hilly country to try to find a valuable lost colt that had escaped from a station (a ranch) to join the wild bush horses.")
>

> *Mathew Flinders, Trim, Collins, 1978.

> ("Trim, 'the best and most illustrious of his race', was the much-loved cat who accompanied Matthew Frinders on several of his famous voyages in the early 19th Century. On an ill-fated return to England Trim and Flinders were held by the French on the island of Mauritius, where Flinders wrote Trim's story during his seven years of captivity.")
>

> *The Giant Bamboo Happening, J. Ferguson (Sydney, Australia), 1982.*.
>
>
>
> Lenona.

Thanks Lenona for writing this story of Annette. I knew her in Sydney in the mid-fifties, often think of those times.

[leno...@yahoo.com]

On Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 3:09:34 AM UTC-4, filma...@gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks Lenona for writing this story of Annette. I knew her in Sydney in the mid-fifties, often think of those times.

Glad to please.

[dbroo...@googlemail.com]

Hi, I've just come back from walking around the Round House where Annette lived, wrote and drew. My father was the local farmer, Sam Brooks, and she dedicated a beautiful picture to him. It hung on his wall for more than 40 years. I would like to see any other paintings and drawings she has done. Is it possible to contact her in Gloucestershire to see her work? Richard Brooks

[leno...@yahoo.com]

On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 12:07:09 PM UTC-4, dbroo...@googlemail.com wrote:
Is it possible to contact her in Gloucestershire to see her work? Richard Brooks

Actually, it seems she now lives in Hassall Cottage, Macquarie Grove, Camden, New South Wales, Australia! (Can't be 100% sure, though.)

This is what tipped me off (the date in question is Dec. 2013):

http://www.camdenhistory.org.au/2014%20Autumn%20Newsletter.pdf

The reference is on page 2 of 4.


Lenona.

[dbroo...@googlemail.com]

Thanks Lenora, that's helpful. I've just bought her book about the Round House online. I'll write an appreciation to her and find out if any of her paintings are for sale long distance. Best wishes Richard