Jenny Sages is an Archibald Prize People's Choice Award winning Australian artist born 1933 in Shanghai, China. She is known for her abstract landscape paintings and portraits. She arrived in Australia in 1948. After being expelled from East Sydney Tech, Jenny moved to New York to study at Franklin School of Art. She was a freelance writer and illustrator for Vogue Australia until the 1980s before starting full-time painting in 1985 at the age of 52. Her career transformation was greatly influenced by a trip to Kimberley, Western Australia, where she felt enchanted by the local indigenous culture. Her unique style is created using wax and pigments and the minimal use of brushes. Early life and career Jenny Sages was born in Shanghai, China, in 1933, and did not move to Sydney, Australia, until she was 14. Her parents were Russian, and she was their only child. During their time in Shanghai, her father sold silk for a living. The family decided to move to Sydney in 1948 due to the political turmoil in China. Sages started attending Sydney Girls' High School at 14 and continued to study Design & Colour and Life Drawing at East Sydney Technical College from 1950–51, but she got expelled. She then went to New York and studied at the Franklin School of Art for three-and-a-half years from 1951 to 1954 and graduated in Fine Art, Design and Commercial Art. Sages recalled in an interview with Maria Stoljar in 2017 that she did not acquire any painting skills from art school in New York, but studied fashion illustration instead, which later helped launching her career in the fashion industry. After her finishing her studies in New York, Sages traveled the Middle East. In 1954, She met her husband Jack Sages in Israel, who was serving the British Navy stationed in Alexandria, Egypt, during World War II. The two later got married, returned to Australia and had a daughter Tanya. After returning to Australia, Sages worked as a freelance fashion illustrator and travel blogger from 1955 to 1984 for various books and magazines, including Vogue. She also attended John Olsen and Mary White's School in Sydney from 1956–57. Artist career Sages claims that despite only becoming a full-time artist at the age of 52, she has been drawing her entire life. In 1983, Sages went on a trip to Kimberley that became a turning point in