If John Olsen had drawn up a checklist of advice to younger artists, he would have emphasised the following points.
One: Spend dedicated time in the studio. Olsen worked hard and consistently all his life, right up until the weekend before his death on Tuesday at his home near Bowral, aged 95. "You must be in that studio as much as possible," he once said. "If there's a disaster, that's only one day and you start again tomorrow. But there you are in the studio and whilst ever you're there, something can happen."
