Brone Mockunas - paintings

  'I naturally loved beauty' -  Interview in Voruta [Lithuanian newspaper]; 1997 Nr 33, p11  Brone Mockunas (nee Žaranskytė) - born 1918.08.03 in Lithuania, died 2011.01.28 in Australia   'As well as literature I was interested in art. I became especially interested while at high school in Panevežys, where our art teacher Voicechavičius [the artist Jonas Voicechavičius - Vaitys 1903-1963] fascinated us with colours and modern art.'  While studying at Vilnius University Brone met Elena Kepalas (1920-2006), who later became known in Australia and the USA as an expressionist dancer, sculptor, poet and modernist painter. They remained firm friends for life. The photo above is from 1945 at the Dillingen refugee camp in Germany - Elena Kepalas on the left with Jonas and Brone Mockunas. At home in Adelaide in 1995, Brone with her painting on the left (untitled, 1993, on the theme of Lithuanian independence regained) and Elena Kepalas' painting on the right (Crucifiction,