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performing due to her great-aunt Agnes
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exhibition to attempt to arouse her interest, with no success. The arrival of the
English painter Douglas Dundas in 1930 greatly influenced her. Appleton graduated with a diploma in drawing and illustration in 1933 and earned a college scholarship. After she observed impressionist prints lying in an
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Appleton preferred to work with oils and watercolour; she also exhibited works in charcoal, pastel, pencil and India ink. Describing painting as "a very personal thing" with "a poetry in painting" and "a love affair", one of her favourite subjects concerned bottles. In 1942, Appleton went away from
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to which her father objected. Appleton shared and worked in a studio in Quay with fellow painter
Dorothy Thornhill, and earned capital by creating textile patterns. She made multiple unsuccessful attempts to obtain the New South Wales Government Travelling Scholarship. After her father died in 1935
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She was described as an individual who was admired professionally; according to the painter
Elizabeth Cummings, Appleton was not didactic and had an interest in exploration to enough of an extent that her "thinking was always moving." The interviewer Willi Carney calls her "self-reliant" and an
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on 13 September 1911. She was the second of three children and the only daughter of
Charles Appleton and Elizabeth Appleton (née Macredie). Her father encouraged her to read books, and her elder brother Frederick instilled a sense of adventure into her. Appleton had a lifelong interest in the
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Australia in 1940, to teach art at three public schools to allow for the continuation of her work and assisted in the war effort by studying vocational therapy. Her work received a large amount of recognition from the art industry, and she earned four prizes.
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England during the 1960 before residing in Australia due to alienation of the decade's art styles. Appleton was represented on the Print Council of Australia Exhibition in 1968 after she had become interested in
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to assume Wilson's former teaching position in 1946 before switching to the East Sydney
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