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    Stretching Boundaries

    May 24, 2019 2 minutes
    Edited by Trevor Lang

    Marlene Jones was born in the New South Wales country town of Gilgandra. She eventually moved to the Blue Mountains (west of Sydney) about 22 years ago.

    An interest in art was motivated by some serious problems with her health.

    “I only started to paint 11 years ago, after four years of major surgical procedures (18

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