Artist and stage designer. Louden Sainthill was born in 1918 in Hobart and grew up in Melbourne where he studied for a relatively short time at the art school of the Melbourne Technical College. He was greatly influenced by the arrival in Australia of the Colonel de Basil Ballet Company and the colour and settings used on the stage. His first exhibition of paintings in Melbourne in 1939 reflected this experience. That same year he travelled with the ballet company to London where Sir Rex de Charembac Nan Kivell successfully exhibited his paintings at the Redfern Gallery. During the Second World War, Loudon served as a private in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and after his service moved to work in Sydney, exhibiting at the Macquarie Galleries. In 1949 he returned to England where he gained success as a costume and set designer for the theatre, debuting with the highly applauded decor production for The Tempest at Stratford-upon-Avon. In the mid-1960s he was a visiting teacher of stage design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London. He died of myocardial infarction on 10 June 1969 at Westminster Hospital.
From the description of Papers of Loudon Sainthill, 1938-1988. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225527397
