Ilma Duncan Ilma was born in Tasmania in the early 1920’s. The Tasmanian family are all artists. She was educated at Korowa CEGS, Melbourne. In her early years Ilma was a secondary teacher in the fields of Physical Education and Art. Her first real Watercolour teacher was Eric Britten. Throughout all her years in the “Art World”, Ilma has worked in numerous mediums, including Bronze and Clay Sculpture, Oil Painting and Silver smithing. Ilma has concentrated on Watercolours since the late eighties and is a member of the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia, Plenty Valley Arts, Victorian Artists’ Society, the Watercolour Society of Victoria and Australian Guild of Realist Artists. Over many years Ilma has won many prizes and been Highly Commended numerous times. Some of her more recent awards are: The Caltex Award 1990  The Wildlife Art Society of Australasia’s  best novice watercolour award. 1997  The Wangaratta Best Watercolour Award 1998  Excellence Award, “All Japan International Art Show”  1998  Two awards at the prestigious Altona Art Show 1999  Best Water colour prize, Portland Art Show 2000  Won the Floral Art section. “All Japan International Art Show”  2000    Best Watercolour Kalkallo 2005 Sir Edmund Herring Memorial Award, most outstanding watercolour Ilma has held extremely successful solo exhibitions at the “Old Post Office Seymour". Her paintings are in private and public collections in Japan, Canada, USA, IK, Greece & Turkey. Ilma is a big supporter of the various service clubs and CFA’s in the area and has been guest artists for all on numerous occasions. She still teaches Watercolour painting on a weekly basis.