Fleurieu Living Magazine

Green Tank

John and Lydia Lacey own the Green Tank Gallery, just south of Mount Compass. The property is primarily their home, but also houses a gallery and studio for John’s creative landscape paintings. The building sits beautifully within the landscape, long and low with a combination of corrugated iron, stone, rendered walls and glass – with red and ochre highlights.

On several occasions over the five years when we have visited, we have asked John about featuring the property in FLM. He has always had the same answer: ‘It’s not ready yet.’ I started to think it would never be ready. So when John

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