Kathleen Salmond

Kathleen Lucy Salmond was a New Zealand artist, born in Dunedin.

Early life and education

Salmond was born in Dunedin, the eldest daughter of architect Louis Salmond. She studied at the Dunedin Art School. She travelled to the UK and spent a year at the Harvey-Proctor Art School in Cornwall, and the one year at the Slade School of Fine Art and St Martin's School of Art.

Career

Salmond worked primarily with watercolour. She exhibited with:

Her work The Sunlit Farm was included in the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, 1925–6. She also exhibited works in London at the British Empire Art Exhibition and the Coronation Exhibition.
Works by Salmond are held in the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Salmond died in Dunedin on 5 May 1946, and she was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery.