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Meta Orton (b.1912 Pietermaritzburg d.2001 Umhlanga Rocks)
Meta Orton studied at the Natal Technical College (1946), the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (1948-50) and the Byam Shaw School of Art, London (1957-59). She was a member of the Natal Society of artists from 1956 with whom she held three solo shows from 1972. She founded the North Coast art Group in 1976, taught art privately in Umhlanga Rocks between 1967 and 1975 and at the North Coast Artists' Workshop from 1976. Meta Orton was an inveterate traveler, achieving her ambition of traveling to every continent, including Antarctica, at least once during her lifetime.
Meta Orton was a painter and sculptor of figures, portraits and landscapes.