Background
Van Hek was born in Melbourne, residing in Europe and India for some years.
Van Hek was born in Melbourne, residing in Europe and India for some years.
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 Civil Defense River of Life featuring songs of New Zealand writer, Kath Tait.
Lin Van Hek has 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.