"The Most Delightful Thing on Earth"
Gladys Reynell is a most important figure in South Australian art, being our first studio potter. This book and accompanying retrospective exhibition, The Most Delightful Thing on Earth: The Art of Gladys Reynell, is timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of her death in 1956. Her early training as an artist was in Adelaide, but it was an extended stay in Britain from 1912 to 1919 - part of it enforced due to the First World War - with fellow artist Margaret Preston which gave her full exposure to the British avant-garde and the practical experience of being an artist in the difficult environment of wartime Britain.