The Girl From the Nor. West, James Fardoulys, 1967

SRAG collection. Photograph by Sandra McEwan.

James Nicholas Fardoulys (1900-75), also known as Dimitrios Nikolois Fardoulys, was born in Greece and moved to Australia in 1914. He lived in Warwick and Stanthorpe for a time as a teenager. Fardoulys took up painting in retirement and was considered a leading naïve artist of the time.