Wendy Beckett
Sister Wendy Beckett entered, when she was sixteen, a teaching order of nuns, the Sisters of Notre Dame. After studying for an English degree at St Anne's College, Oxford where she was awarded a Congratulatory First, Sister Wendy went to teach in South Africa. She returned to England in to lead a fully contemplative life under the protection of a Carmelite monastery in Norfolk in 1970.
A lifelong art lover, Sister Wendy began serious study of the subject in 1980. She writes for many art magazines and has featured on a number of BBC television programmes Sister Wendy's Odyssey,Sister Wendy's Grand Tour and Sister Wendy's Story of Painting. Sister Wendy's Story of Painting inspired the international best-selling book of the same name published by Dorling Kindersley in 1996. Sister Wendy has written many art books including Meditations on Joy, Peace, Love and Silence; A Child's Boook of Prayer in Art; Contemporary Women Artists; and Art and the Sacred for DK.
Through her television appearances and bestselling publications, Sister Wendy has become a phenomenon in her own right. Acclaimed in the UK, and tremendously popular in the US she has proved to be a true revolutionary, helping to make great works of art accessible to the general public.
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