CAROLYN LANDON

The author event with Carolyn Landon on July 18th is something we've been waiting for, it seems forever.  Carolyn has brought her biographical talent to capturing the life and times of our most beloved artist, Celia Rosser.

This is not a first for Carolyn, she has also recorded the lives of Daryl Tonkin in Jackson's Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place and the sequel Jackson's Track Revisited, Bet Boyanton in Cups with No Handles, and Eileen Harrison in Black Swan: A Koorie Woman's Life.  When you look at the amount of reference material and bibliography listed for each of these memoirs it gives you an understanding of the way Carolyn immerses herself in the background of the people whose portrait she creates. She has now added Banksia Lady: Celia Rosser, Botanical Artist to the list.

Carolyn came to Australia in 1968 as a traveller, hitchhiking by small aeroplane throughout the far north. She was a teacher in Australian state schools for almost thirty years, and withher husband, Larry Hills, she has written and published several musical plays.