A DAME GOOD LEGACY Louise’s art & soul
If you were passing through the former Farmers car park in downtown Auckland back in the mid 1980s, there’s a chance you may have come across an elderly lady working feverishly on giant colourful canvases.
The unlikely venue had become a makeshift studio for one of Aotearoa’s most prolific modern artists, Dame Louise Henderson, as she created her monumental series, The Twelve Months.
The dame was in her 80s when she embarked on the ambitious project that depicted impressions of life in New
