During the voyage he painted the dancers and choreographers. An exhibition of his paintings of the dancers and sets led to an invitation to return to London with the company. Sainthill’s interest in theatre design was fired by the Australian tours (1936-39) of Colonel de Basil’s Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. About this time he met his lifelong partner Harry Karl Tatlock Miller (1913-1989)-a journalist and later an art critic and expert on paintings and antiques-whose connexions and organizing ability were to complement Sainthill’s creative talents. By 1935 Sainthill, as he thenceforward spelt his name, was living in a flat at 24 Collins Street and eking out a living by painting murals in a surrealist style reminiscent of Alcimboldo. At his father’s insistence he worked as a designer for a sandblasting firm in South Melbourne. In 1932-33 he studied drawing and general design at the Applied Art School, Working Men’s College. He read widely, painted and drew, and found his way into theatres and concert halls, where he saw Pavlova, heard (Dame) Nellie Melba, and absorbed performances of Ibsen and Chekhov. ![]() A delicate, nervous child, with a stammer that persisted into adulthood (except when talking to children), Loudon contrived to avoid much formal schooling, though he did attend Ripponlea State School for a while. By 1920 the family was living in Melbourne, first at Toorak and then at East St Kilda. ![]() Loudon Sainthill, artist and stage designer, was born on 9 January 1918 in Hobart, second of four children of Tasmanian-born parents Willoughby Aveland St Hill, a clerk who became a commission agent, and his wife Honora Matilda, née Horder.
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