Doreen Gadsby - Artist Info

About Doreen Gadsby

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    "Rich vision defies artist's fading sight" by Steve Meacham, The Sunday Morning Herald, January 25, 201, Melbourne, Australia

    Doreen Gadsby has found light in the dark, writes Steve Meacham.

    At 84, Doreen Gadsby - mother to four children, widow to four husbands - needs no alarm to rise each day at 4am. She is at her easel a few minutes later, making best use of what, for her, is the best light of the day.

    The rest of us might struggle in the pre-dawn gloom. But Gadsby is afflicted with one of the worst curses possible for an artist. Sarcoidosis is a rare immune disease that attacks a victim's lungs and eyes. In Gadsby's case, the brighter the sunlight, the less she can see.

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