Saturday 29 November 2025 between 3pm and 5pm at Angullong Cellar Door, Victoria St Millthorpe. The artist died in March 2025 at the age of 94 and in a wide career as a painter had run a gallery in Millthorpe from 1994-2025.
The artist died in March 2025 at the age of 94 and in a wide career as a painter had run a gallery in Millthorpe from 1994-2025.
The event will include the unveiling of one of Ada’s many beautiful artworks which will then remain on display at the cellar door.
Ada’s son Hector will be at the event to talk about his mother and share some interesting insights into her life.
Her obituary on her website reads:
” Through the form I draw the viewer into their emotions and the spirit of Life” Ada
Ada lived and worked working successfully as an artist for nearly 80 years.
She travelled the globe inspired and inspiring with her art, exhibiting in Australia, America and Greece.
For the last decades of her life she made her home in the village of Millthorpe, NSW, Australia.
Ada studied art at Wellington N.Z. Technical Art College where she later taught. She studied at the LCC Central School of Art London and visited European galleries. She married Clifford Abbott whose flute concerto was performed by James Galway with Louis Fremaux and the S.S.O in the Sydney Opera House.
With her husband she imported European reproductions from Parisian art editeurs Ferdinand Hazan and Daniel Jacomet.
Her range of cards of Sydney scenes sold in thousands and her reproductions of Greek and Italian scenes have been most popular.
She painted and exhibited regularly over the years while also designing for Sheridans, The National Trust and various industry. In 1998 along with Paul Delprat director of Julian Ashton Art School she judged the Cowra Arts Council Exhibition and has opened many local art shows.
In 2022 the Orange Regional Gallery held a retrospective exhibition of her work.
She travelled regularly to Morocco, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Botswana and England and was fascinated and inspired by the contrast of untouched wild areas of Australia and sitting in a Greek Vineyard hearing nearby church bells, the donkeys grazing and a group of olive pickers indulging in a mid morning break for bread and wine.
As to her aims in art she preferred to let her paintings talk for her but she emphasised that colour is very important to her in expressing strength, hope and life through her landscapes.
Ada ran her own art gallery in the heritage village of Millthorpe from 1994 to 2025, selling her paintings, prints and her pottery.
Some of Ada’s work is still available via her website https://www.adaclark.com/store.html or contact Hector Abbott
Phone – 0412-075020 Email – h-abbott@iinet.net.au
IMAGE: Ada Clark. Credit: Central Western Daily.