A Life in Colour and Light Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Dora Lynnell Wilson moved to Victoria, Australia, as an infant. Her early years in Melbourne were shaped by the classrooms of Somerset School and Methodist Ladies' College, but it was at the National Gallery schools that her true direction emerged. Between 1901 and 1906, she studied under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin, finding a community of peers that would define…