Notebooks by Betty Churcher, Miegunyah Press, $44.99
She was known as “Betty Blockbuster” when she was the director of the National Gallery of Australia because of her passion for bringing great international art to our shores.
And when in 2003 Betty Churcher discovered she was losing her eyesight she set off on a global pilgrimage to revisit her most beloved works of art in person, to sketch them and commit them to memory.
Betty was born with the ability to draw — “it was my way of creating order in a confusing world,” she writes. Looking at a great painting “was like a magic carpet: it could carry me away from Brisbane.”
This exquisite book reproduces Betty’s sketches form her grand tour alongside the original Masters. Above are her sketches of Rembrandt’s Woman Bathing in A Stream and Manet’s Woman with a Cat.
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