Lin Van Hek


Lin Van Hek is an Australian writer and painter, Vice-President of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of the literary-music group Difficult Women.

Early life

Van Hek was born in Melbourne, residing in Europe and India for some years.

Career

Van Hek is a singer, songwriter, novelist, poet and a painter. She co-wrote and sang the song "Intimacy" for the film, The Terminator. She recorded a solo CD River of Life featuring songs of New Zealand writer, Kath Tait.
Lin Van Hek worked for over two decades with a group of women in North Vietnam designing, manufacturing and trading in ethical, non-exploitative hand-embroidered silk garments and textiles.
She is an advocate of handmade houses and also lives half the year in a stone house on the Brass Knocker Creek near the Wadbilliga River and state forest in the southeastern corner of New South Wales.
She is a prolific painter whose work is in great demand. Her paintings are exhibited formally at her gallery, Poet House, in Thornbury.

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