Charles Meere

While pursuing his Sydney art practice, he also worked as a commercial artist, exhibited widely and taught life classes to students such as Freda Robertshaw.

He achieved considerable artistic and commercial success, winning the Sulman Prize in 1938 with Atalanta's Eclipse, a neo-classical interpretation of the Greek myth.

[1] Meere is best known for his stylised art deco paintings dating from the interwar period, most notably Australian Beach Pattern (1938–40).

Alternately criticised or praised for its studied formality, this painting has been variously interpreted as a celebration of Australian beach culture, a glorification of heroic racial purity, or as a nuanced reflection of Australia's unpreparedness for World War II.

[1] He married again in Sydney, to Anne Carter;[1] their son Michael John Meere, was born on 4 December 1938, but died before his first birthday.