Written by Janelle Hatherly and Barbara Wintringham Nora Heysen was the fourth of eight children. Born in 1911, her German-born father, Hans Heysen, was a successful landscape artist and gifted painter of the Australian bush and, to this day, is one of Australia’s best-known artists. The family lived in the Adelaide Hills at The Cedars, a beautiful home sheltered by towering Himalayan cedars and surrounded by majestic gums. As a child Nora travelled this landscape with her fa