Art and the Real Estate Business

Back in 2020, Surrey Hills Historical Society received a donation of over 500 sketches in black ink on polyester drafting film of local homes from Margaret Picken, whose career began as a cartographic draftsman in the mining industry. Later she transferred her skills to the real estate industry, a career that lasted 22 years from 1983-2005. In the Mont Albert-Surrey Hills area she largely worked for Woodards or Fletchers. Margaret’s sketches became the images on real estate flyers and ads in newspapers and today have become significant as important historic records of our built heritage.