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Title: Wendy Whiteley & the Secret Garden
Author: HAWLEY JANET
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 23/09/2015
Imprint: LANTERN
Price: $79.99
Publishing status: Active
For more than twenty years Wendy Whiteley has worked to create a public garden at the foot of her harbourside home in Sydney’s Lavender Bay. This is the extraordinary story of how a determined, passionate and deeply creative woman has slowly transformed herself.
Wendy Whiteley was Brett Whiteley’s wife, muse and model. An artist herself, with a finely honed aesthetic sense, she also created the interiors at the heart of Brett’s iconic paintings of their Lavender Bay home. When Brett died, folled by the death nine years later of their daughter Arkie, Wendy threw her grief and creativity into making an enchanting hidden oasis out of derelict land owned by the New South Wales Government. This glorious guerrilla garden is Wendy’s living artwork, designed with daubs of colour, sinuous shapes and shafts of light.
As Wendy explains, ‘I’d never made a real garden before this, only a courtyard with pots. I knew nothing about horticulture or the Latin names of plants. But like Brett, I’m a highly visual person. I do know about colour, shape, texture, design and balance. So I treated the garden like a giant painting: structuring, planting, then adding more layers of planting; pruning, editing, moving things around till it pleased my eye. And letting nature work its own magic.’
ISBN: 9781921383939
Pages: 304