Marjorie Helen Hann OAM, FRSASA (23 February 1916 – 29 June 2011) was a South Australian artist and art teacher.
[2] After the war Marjorie illustrated a series of books for children by Kathleen M. Mellor MBE, the first Director of the Lady Gowrie Child Centre.
In 1947 radio personality Bob Fricker created a comic character "Charlie Cheesecake",[b] a boy who was always getting into trouble, for his breakfast programme on 5AD and, with help from Arthur Askey, on recordings for the National Safety Council.
[5] He was approached by the Child Safety Council of SA to write and illustrate a similar booklet of "cautionary tale" poems, in collaboration with advertising executive Lloyd A. Wilson (1898–1961).
[6] She wrote and illustrated a serious comic strip adaptation of Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring which was serialized in 82 episodes and syndicated throughout Australia.
After contributing the winning essay for a contest "What I hate about housework", she was given a column "Every Woman's Family", which she wrote (as "Helen") for the Adelaide News and the Melbourne Argus, or/then the Sunday Advertiser for many years.
She was asked by the Messenger Press to write a regular column on regional art exhibitions for their free suburban newspapers.
She has always painted in a realistic style directly from nature, from live models and subjects sitting for commissioned portraits, or en plein aire.