HEAVENLY ANGLES ARTS Award-Winning Renovation DYNAMO Jenny Bott
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$9.90 INCL GST JUNE/JULY 2019 TM® HighlifeCOUNTRY LIFE IN THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS OF AUSTRALIA HEAVENLY ANGLES ARTS award-winning renovation DYNAMO Jenny Bott HOW TO COOK THE CLASSICS weddings LESSONS FROM with altitude A GARDEN 28 page Highlands Frensham’s historic grounds wedding feature + Red Cow Farm’s stunning borders “IDLEWYLDE” F ITZROY F ALLS IDYLLIC HORSE PROPERTY WITH LIMITLESS APPEAL 120 prime acres encompassing the timeless beauty of Fitzroy Falls, Morton Nation Park & well established multi-million dollar estates. Offering world class equine facilities, excellent farming infrastructure & a substantial Australian colonial style home created to the highest standard & without compromise. ‘Idlewylde’ is in a class of its own. Price Guide $6 Million Samuel Lindsay 0404 647 609 Drew Lindsay 0412 180 765 Samuel Lindsay 0404 647 609 Drew Lindsay 0412 180 765 Karl Zabel 0432 410 275 Laura Lindsay 0401 954 665 Corina Nesci 0416 523 155 Sandie Dunne 0414 243 352 24 Wingecarribee Street, Bowral 4861 2799 www.drewlindsay.com.au “FOX GLEN” R OBERTSON With unsurpassed rural views & at the source of the Nepean River, an idyllic rural retreat nestled within 30 beautiful acres. Designed perfectly for entertaining inside & out, a spacious family home of excellent quality with abundant accommodation, lap pool & tennis court. Located only minutes from the Robertson township & with easy access to Sydney & the coast, ‘Fox Glen’ offers an enviable lifestyle. Price $3.6 Million Samuel Lindsay 0404 647 609 24 Wingecarribee Street, Bowral 4861 2799 www.drewlindsay.com.au “LA FINCA” E XETER In a commanding hilltop position enjoying expansive rural views, a wonderful family home set on 27 picturesque acres. Ideal for entertaining inside & out with a variety of light filled living areas, 4 spacious bedrooms & 3 bathrooms. Surrounded by beautiful & well established gardens and offering absolute privacy, ‘La Finca’ is only a short distance from Bowral, with easy access from Sydney & Canberra. Price Guide $2.3 Million Samuel Lindsay 0404 647 609 24 Wingecarribee Street, Bowral 4861 2799 www.drewlindsay.com.au Spanning over 5 generations of continuous agency, the Drew Lindsay brand has a long established heritage of selling the finest homes & estates. Therefore, I am delighted to introduce my son Samuel Lindsay. Born into this generational business of real estate agents, & having accumulated a wealth of experience in marketing & branding, my son Samuel has helped shape the business into what it is today & will continue to do so into the future. Being local to Wildes Meadow & having a thorough understanding of the Highlands, Samuel has achieved some great sales demonstrating excellent negotiation skills & a clear passion for real estate. My trust in my son to continue our family legacy of selling unique Highlands properties, for which the agency is renowned, is second to none. By fostering a tradition of trust & developing lasting relationships with our clients, Drew Lindsay Real Estate provides the very best service for all property matters. We proudly guard this Lindsay family real estate legacy. I would like to invite you to contact Samuel for all your real estate needs. Samuel Lindsay 0404 647 609 [email protected] 24 Wingecarribee Street, Bowral 4861 2799 www.drewlindsay.com.au Contents FRESH ANGLES 60 100 THE CLASSICS CLASSIC CAR120 80 72 JENNY BOTT LESSONS FROM A GARDEN LESSONS FROM 80 A GARDEN How do gardens PAINTING THE contribute to 76 PAST education? Gardening writer Frances Simons 112 visits the historic HIDDEN gardens at Mittagong’s HISTORY Frensham school and FRESH ANGLES Sturt Gallery and 60 Bowral owners Pat and Studios to find out. REGULARS Jenny Rowley told their architects: “We’d like a BORDERING ON 6 DREAM ESTATES contemporary style, we 90 MAGIC Jonathan Chancellor need to capture the Earlier this year we THIS IS THE view everywhere we photographed two 42 SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS are, we want flourishing border something strong, and gardens at Red Cow HIDDEN HISTORY 44 HIGHLAND angles, angles, angles.” Farm, Sutton Forest, 112 Anyone who has LIFE They got everything that were planted only researched local CLOSE UP they wanted. last year. Frances history will know about 56 Michaela Bolzan Simons explains how the Berrima Museum, QUEEN OF ARTS to create a beautiful and the Berrima 58 A PLACE IN 72 “If you ask people to border. District Historical and THE COUNTRY imagine a world without Family History Society. IN THE GARDEN the arts, they couldn’t FORGING AHEAD But there’s another 94 June/July – it’s part of the 96 When Steve repository of local tapestry of our lives.” Hogwood’s life fell history hidden away in 100 FOOD Arts dynamo Jenny apart, he turned to Bowral’s library. The classics Bott talks about the blacksmithing, a craft THEN AND NOW importance of bringing he has loved since he WILD AND 110 Berrima bridge the arts to the public, was a child. He 122 WONDERFUL and establishing a explains how two Close encounters BOOKS Southern Highlands master blacksmiths with wildlife, flights 116 regional gallery. helped him create a over savannahs, visits TOP MARQUES better life. to Maasai villages and 118 Maserati PAINTING THE PAST nights under African 76 Mittagong artist James GIVE ME SHELTER skies. Who wouldn’t 120 CLASSIC CAR King explains how 106 In 2016, Dignity opened want to go on safari? 1951Armstrong Sidley working in the its first emergency Station Coupe Australian Museum’s shelter, a rented ONE PERFECT DAY AROUND THE photographic house in Bowral. 138 If you’re planning your 124 HIGHLANDS department led to a Today the charity has big day, our annual love of archival 29 emergency wedding feature offers TAIL END photographs that guesthouses across plenty of ideas for 168 Basset Hound resonates in his quirky NSW and shelters planning an idyllic OUR COVER: BOWRAL HOME. paintings. 220 people a night. country wedding. PHOTOGRAPHED BY TONY SHEFFIELD HIGHLIFEMAGAZINE.COM.AU 5 DREAM ESTATES JONATHAN CHANCELLOR CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT AIRTHREY, SEDALIA FARM AND BEACON HILL to the early 1980s, Corinda Grange was Prestwich sold the property in 2001 for a dairy. Today, the main house has four $985,000. The current vendor, director bedrooms, two living and dining areas Tony Williams and his wife Anna, paid and a deck overlooking the gardens. In the $1.95 million for the home in 2007. During grounds is Peony Cottage, a self-contained their ownership, artist John Olsen used the two bedroom cottage, and The Dairy, a studio to paint his monumental mural The multipurpose studio. There’s also a stable King Sun. Di Jones Southern Highlands ittagong’s Sedalia Farm has been and attached manager’s flat. Di Dixon agent Lisa-Marie Cauchois is marketing sold having been listed with $3.6 from Belle Property Bowral has the listing. the property with a $3.85 million guide. Mmillion hopes. The farmhouse, White Birch Farm has a five bedroom complete with two wood-burning fires, has ox Glen, the Robertson retreat, main homestead, a two bedroom cottage, been designed to resemble an American has been listed for the first time cattle yards and a vegetable garden. style barn, blending contemporary and Fin more than 15 years. Asking rustic features. The formal dining and $3.6 million, the 11 hectare holding ily View, an architecturally designed separate lounge open to outdoor living last traded for $1,125,000 in 2003. The country home in Wildes Meadow spaces. There are two bedrooms on main five bedroom homestead has been Lhas been listed with $2,195,000 the lower level and two upstairs, plus a completely restored. There’s also separate hopes. Ken Heikkinen of Raine & Horne mezzanine study nook. Haydon Homes two bedroom guest accommodation. A Southern Highlands has the listing, which Bowral agent Eloise Haydon marketed the swimming pool, tennis court, cattle yards he says has a modern Scandinavian feel. property. Set on two hectares, it includes a and a stable sit in the grounds, as does a The property last traded for $870,000 in one bedroom guesthouse. high yielding olive grove with 100-plus 2009. The 1980s Myra Vale Road home on trees. Samuel Lindsay of Drew Lindsay 2.8 hectares has four bedrooms, a lounge he Highlands is set for one of its Real Estate Bowral has the listing. area with fireplace and a north-facing biggest sales of the year with the terrace. Heikkinen says the Black Box, T $6 million listing of Beacon Hill, irthrey, a two hectare Mount a contemporary work space with tilt the luxury Glenn Murcutt-designed Murray property with views of the doors, black tinted glass, kitchen and full Bowral home. The pavilion-style home AIllawarra coastline, has sold for $2.7 bathroom, could be used as state-of-the-art was commissioned in 1992 by the late million. It had been marketed with initial accommodation. judge Roddy Meagher QC and his late $2.95 million hopes through Andrew de artist wife Penny. They paid $260,000 Montemas from W. M. Carpenter Real atalina, a pavilion-style Burradoo for the 40 hectares in the early 1980s, Estate. The two storey home has four home set on a 1835sqm block, is buying from their friend James Fairfax, bedrooms, three bathrooms, an upstairs Con the market with a price guide of who subdivided his Retford Park Estate. artist’s studio and a home office. The $2.95 million. The home features premier The four bedroom home, complete with timber clad and Colorbond roofed house design and precision detailing, such as a studio, gym, sauna, swimming pool and sits amid Peter Fudge gardens. The contemporary black steel-framed entry spa, was the Meaghers’ weekender. The property also includes a machinery shed.