Artist Gardens and Garden Art Books
A garden is not complete without art pieces much like a room in your home needs the personal touch of art. These books are selected showing artists in their own gardens or garden art. Many ideas to help give your garden the touch of personality only the gardener can give.
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Artists in Their Gardens
This is one of my favorites. Even though I have read it cover to cover, I keep picking it up and going through it one more time. Artists in Their Gardens is very inspirational. When I see others creativity such as the work featured in this book, it starts my creative juices flowing.
Book Description: Artists do it differently. Make gardens, that is. This lusciously photographed book showcases ten creative, unconventional, sometimes outrageous gardens made by painters, glassblowers, collage artists, and sculptors. Their uncommon approaches provide fresh ideas and inspiration for all gardeners who are all tired of the same old beds, borders, and lawns.
Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening
Book Description: For experienced and would-be gardeners alike, this beautiful book leads readers through a process of creative discovery that encourages them to bloom right along with their gardens.
Now more than ever, people are looking for activities that help them to relax and connect with the world--and nothing accomplishes this goal more completely than gardening. By tuning in to the processes of the natural world, millions have discovered that gardening acts as a conduit for experiencing creativity--not just in the garden, but in life. Now, gardening expert Fran Sorin offers this practical, prescriptive, and motivational book to teach readers to use gardening as both a metaphor and a tool for exploring and enhancing creativity in all areas of life. With evocative illustrations and a series of eye-opening, inspirational exercises, Digging Deep encourages gardeners of all levels to enjoy their gardens more deeply and to set their creative selves free.
A Garden Gallery
The Plants, Art, and Hardscape of Little and Lewis
Book Description Celebrated internationally as artists and gardeners, George Little and David Lewis open the gates to their renowned garden retreat and share the personalities and enthusiasms that have shaped its wild fantasia of plants, hardscape, and art. Little and Lewis are long-time collaborators whose concrete sculptures and installations have been collected around the world. Their Puget Sound garden is the primary showcase for their artwork but also for the unique gardening qualities that epitomize their style. Water features, oversized and broadleaved plants, expansive use of color, zone-pushing tropicals, architectural emphasis, and elements of classicism and mystery --- all combine to create a deeply personal and magical space. In this long-awaited book, Little and Lewis describe how any gardener can achieve this kind of excitement and space for reflection in his or her backyard. From practical advice on how to make a slow-drip natural fountain, choose complementary colors, or build an inexpensive Tuscan-style wall to conceptual discussions on laying out borders and making use of water, Little and Lewis offer inspiration and encourage gardeners to use imagination and take risks. Stunning and unforgettable photographs by Barbara Denk provide a lush visual interpretation, while NPR's "Doyenne of Dirt," Ketzel Levine, describes the authors' important influence on the gardening community.
Making Gardens Works of Art: Creating Your Own Personal Paradise
"The first time I saw Keeyla's garden was in a magazine. I was struck by her wonderful sense of color she used in her garden. I hope some day I will be able to walk through Keeyla's garden. In the meantime I will sit and wish and sigh while reading this wonderful book. This book I named October's Book of the Month.
Book Description: Walking into Keeyla Meadows’ garden, you are struck by the sheer exuberance of plants and greeted by a riot of color that flows gracefully throughout the space. In this beautiful new book, an award-winning garden designer and artist shows how to turn a gardener into an artist and a garden into a work of art.
Derek Jarman's Garden
Book Description: "When the brilliant, controversial filmmaker Derek Jarman (whose works include Caravaggio, The Last of England, Edward II, Wittgenstein, and Blue) discovered in 1986 that he was HIV-positive, he decided to construct a garden at his cottage on the coast of Dungeness, Kent, a flat, bleak, often desolate expanse of land that faces a nuclear power plant. This is Jarman's personal account of how his garden evolved, from its earliest beginnings in 1986 through the last days of his life.
Howard Sooley's photographs capture the garden during all its different stages and in every season of the year. Photographs from various angles reveal the garden's complex geometric plan, its magical stone circles, and its beautiful and bizarre sculptures. The photographs also provide glimpses of Jarman's life in Dungeness: walking, weeding, watering, or simply enjoying life. This book will appeal to all those who are themselves practicing gardeners, as well as the legions of admirers of this extraordinary man." - Overlook Press
"A testament to the power of words to redeem and the soil to heal."-Garden Design
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