Poppy Faces the World

Pixie O Harris MBE was a Welsh born Australian artist, newspaper, magazine and book illustrator, author, broadcaster, caricaturist and cartoonist, designer of book plates, sheet music covers and stationery, and children s hospital ward fairy style mural painter She became patron to Sydney s Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in 1977.She was born Rhona Olive Harris and was educated at Sully village school and Allensbank Girl s School in Cardiff At age 14 she was a member of the South West Art Society The Harris family migrated to Australia in 1920 and settled in Perth before moving to Sydney in 1921.Disliking her given name Rhona, and having been dubbed the Welsh pixie on the boat over to Australia, she became known as Pixie.She originally produced her professional work under the name Pixie O Harris however, following a printer s error at the Sydney Morning Herald, which printed her name as Pixie O Harris, she permanently used that pseudonym.