A Life in Art: Janet Venn-Brown

8 February 2017 | Art Almanac

A Life in Art: Janet Venn-Brown
Peter Manning
NewSouth Books | November 2016

Janet Venn-Brown is an Australian artist now in her 90s who is still painting today and has led an extraordinary life in Australia and abroad. Australian journalist Peter Manning has written this captivating biography that celebrates Venn-Brown’s life; her artistic career, love story with Palestinian activist Wael Zuaiter, political engagements in the Middle East, forty years in Rome, and recent home-coming. An elaborate collection of the artist’s oils and watercolours are presented in this richly illustrated soft-cover publication.

Peter Manning, A Life in Art: Janet Venn-Brown

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