HMAS Sydney refuelling at HMAS Stirling, WA, 19/11/90 enroute to the Gulf
This work depicts HMAS Sydney, a RAN guided missile frigate, alongside the wharf at shore station HMAS Stirling on its way to the Middle East at the beginning of the First Gulf War. An unidentified RAN support ship is in the background.
- About Lynne Norton
Lynne Norton was born in Fairlight, New South Wales. She is the daughter of Frank and Audrey Norton and when her father was appointed the director of the Western Australia Art Gallery in 1958 the family moved to Perth.
During the 1980s, she studied at the Claremont School of Art and Curtin University. She has won a number of art awards and prizes. Lynne has been a professional artist since 1988 and a part time tutor with Community Art Groups in painting and drawing from 1988 – 2014.
Lynne Norton’s interest in maritime subjects began in 1989. Her first paintings depict merchant and Navy ships at Fremantle. When the ships HMAS Sydney and Brisbane berthed at Stirling in Western Australia on their way to the Gulf in 1990, she obtained permission from the Royal Australian Navy to draw these ships.
Lynne was a member of The Wild Swans Art Group 2016 -20 from Western Australia. Lynne has exhibited throughout Australia as well as internationally in Europe and in east/south-east Asia.
Her work is found in many notable Art Collections: Australian War Memorial Canberra, Australian National Maritime Museum Sydney, University of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology.
- About HMAS Sydney (lV)
HMAS Sydney was the third of six Adelaide Class guided missile frigates to commission into the RAN. She was built at the Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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