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Now
I think Ive found my own environment … The house itself is about
120 years old, in a very wandering wilderness of a garden where
I can grow my own flowers for painting, and the atmosphere is peaceful
and very conducive to my work.
From
an interview with Nora Heysen,
8 November 1965
Oral History Collection

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Self
Portrait 1948
red chalk;
43 x 31.8 cm
signed and dated lower right
Collection: National Library of Australia
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I
fell in love with the place when I saw it. I thought, I could live here
and I could paint here and it would be my setting… Thats how it happened
and Ive never regretted it. Ive made this my home and I never want to
move and I feel happy here with my work.
From
an interview with Nora Heysen,
25 August 1994
Oral History Collection
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