You are invited to meet Janet Hawley and Wendy Whiteley when they discuss Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden.

For more than twenty years, Wendy Whiteley has worked to create a huge public garden at the foot of her harbourside home in Sydney's Lavender Bay. The story behind the garden, and the events of Wendy's life that led to its creation, are beautifully portrayed by award-winning journalist Janet Hawley, in Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden.

Wendy 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, Wendy threw her grief and creativity into making an enchanting hidden oasis out of derelict land owened by the New South Wales Government. Daughter, Arkie Whiteley loved the secret garden and contributed to it, but nine years on, Arkie died, compounding Wendy's loss. This glorious guerrilla garden is Wendy's living artwork, designed with daubs of colour, sinuous shapes and shafts of light.

Join us when author Janet Hawley, discusses her new book with special guest Wendy Whiteley at 6.30pm, on Tuesday November 24th at Berkelouw Books.

Bookings are essential and can be made online by following this link, by phone on 9979 2112 or by email to monavale@berkelouw.com.au.

Cost is $ 10.00, $ 5.00 of which will be credited against any purchases made on the evening.

About the author:

Janet Hawley enjoyed a huge readership in her thirty-year career as senior feature writer on Good Weekend Magazine, published in The Sydney Morning Herald.

She is renowned for her intimate profiles of artists and creative people, and trusted by her interview subjects to explore their private worlds and the mysteries of their creative processes. She has published two books on artists, Artists in Conversation and Encounters with Australian Artists. Her book A Place on the Coast co-authored with Philip Cox, explores a loveof gardens, art and architecture.

Her wide-ranging feature writing has won her numerous major awards, including two Walkley Awards and the Gold Walkley.

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