Zen and now

By Megan Backhouse
Updated May 31 2014 - 10:10am, first published April 19 2014 - 3:00am
Living exhibit: Landscape architect Perry Lethlean in Melbourne Museum's forest gallery. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
Living exhibit: Landscape architect Perry Lethlean in Melbourne Museum's forest gallery. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones

Perry Lethlean was uninterested in gardens before he went to Japan. Landscape architecture was, for him, all about drawing, colouring-in and taking pleasure in his Derwents.