Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden by Janet Hawley - 2015

Lantern of Penguin , Melbourne 2015. 32.0 x 24.0cms, 290pp, colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper Wendy Whiteley created a guerrilla garden from derelict public land near her home in Lavender Bay, on Sydney's North Shore.

Lantern of Penguin , Melbourne 2015. 32.0 x 24.0cms, 290pp, colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper Wendy Whiteley created a guerrilla garden from derelict public land near her home in Lavender Bay, on Sydney's North Shore.

Penguin Random House Australia, 2024. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 11.26x8.51x0.87 inches.

Lantern of Penguin , Melbourne 2015. 32.0 x 24.0cms, 290pp, colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper (Whiteley's & Hawley's signatures) Wendy Whiteley created a guerrilla garden from derelict public land near her home in Lavender Bay, on Sydney's North Shore.

Lantern / Penguin Group Australia, 2015. Hardcover in Dustjacket. 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 an overgrown wasteland into a beautiful sanctuary for everyone to enjoy - and in the process, 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, followed 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.This is Wendy's story… Read More

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Penguin Random House Australia, 2015 290 pages. Excellent condition. The dust jacket has been wrapped in a clear plastic protective cover. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Penguin Books (Australia), Melbourne, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. Size: Folio. 290 pages. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. 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 an overgrown wasteland into a beautiful sanctuary for everyone to enjoy - and in the process, 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, followed 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… Read More