Ellinore in her 20's or 30's

Ellinore at 38 in 1947

1947   Arrived in New Zealand   1950   French for Love Ellinore put this play on for the Titahi Bay Plunket Mother’s Club. This led to the formation of: Titahi Bay Little Theatre Now called Porirua Little Theatre   1951 - 1960   Helped on the Theatre Committee. Directed, acted, made scenery, props and papier mâché heads. Ellinore Directed 5 MAJOR Productions. 1951 March Hay Fever 1951 July Gaslight Played Bella Manningham. 1951 December Racketty Packetty House Played the Princess. 1952 June Castle in the Air David Tinkham played the lead 1957 July Back to Zero 1956 ... Ellinore was made the First Life Member of Titahi Bay Little Theatre at the AGM. The 3 plays below were major ones that she acted in. 1957 May Hiss the Villian Played ? 1959 April An Ideal Husband Played Lady Gertrude Chiltern. 1959 November Ring Round the Moon. Played Madame Desmermortes.   1956 - 1958   New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. Our Dolls .........Pastels and Watercolours Alex Lindsay (Minstrel Player) ...........Oils The Barge Keeper .......................Pastel Canyon Ponies sheltering .......Oil on Wood panel   1960   Rewrote Alice in Wonderland and Produced it as a Major show for the local Catholic Church in Titahi Bay. Top of Page   1966   Studied painting with Paul Oldes for 4 years.   1969 - 1971   Opened The Old Rocking Chair Gallery in Titahi Bay. Taught Art at Hartham Women´s Centre and Mana College - Porirua.   1971 - 1980   Formed Red Cottage Gallery in Kelvin Grove, Wellington - and later in Waikanae. Contributed paintings to help raise money for the Cancer Society.   1985 - 1986   Contributed paintings to Barnardos and Unicef for fund-raising.   1989   Wrote Autobiography: Published by Daphne Brasell, Wellington The Jug of Memories   1993 - 1994   Awarded the Q.S.M. in the New Years Honours List for Services to the Arts. Has had over 44 Major Exhibitions.   1995   Died in May, from Fibrosing of the lungs, There were 15 sad months of knowing she had it.   1996   On May 24 Page 90, now known as Pataka Porirua, held a Major Retrospective Exhibition of Ellinore´s paintings. It ran for one month - entitled: A Jug of Memories.