Do you enjoy drawing or painting gardens?
If you love looking at paintings of gardens or enjoy drawing or painting your own garden or gardens you visit then this site will interest you. It also looks at gardens as art and artwork in gardens It shares links to information about:
- looking at drawings and paintings of gardens
- studying how different artists have responded to the motif of 'the garden' in order to understand more about different approaches to drawing and painting the garden
- gardens which provide opportunities for drawing and painting
This lens originally started as a resource for a project on Gardens in Art on my blog Making A Mark. The information I've gathered is helping me to:
- identify sources of helpful inspiration for my artwork
- produce more drawings around the theme of gardens'
Links from my blog posts have been copied across to the lens to provide a handy reference tool for me - and everybody else interested in different approaches to portraying gardens in art
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- Gardens in Art - blog posts on Making A Mark
- Exhibitions - drawings and paintings of gardens
- BOOKS: Art History - artists drawing and painting gardens
- Gardens in Art - Art History links
- BOOKS: Monet and Giverny
- BOOKS: More books about Monet's Garden at Giverny
- Making A Mark - drawing and painting gardens
- Travels with a sketchbook in......parks and gardens
- How to sketch plein air..... in gardens
- BOOKS: How to paint gardens
- Contemporary artists - painting gardens
- BOOKS: Arts and Crafts Gardens
- Historic Gardens
- BOOKS: Plants and flowers in Art History
- Gardens in Art - contemporary gardens
- BOOKS: Artists' Gardens
- Visiting Gardens in the UK
- BOOKS: So you want to visit a garden.........
- Visiting gardens around the world
- Vegetable and Kitchen Gardens
- Blogs about gardening
- Recent posts on Making A Mark - an art journal and resource
- BOOKS: Gardens in Art
- Comments and suggestions
Gardens in Art - blog posts on Making A Mark
This module lists the blog posts about my project "Gardens in Art" on my blog Making A Mark. Read my blog posts to find out more drawing and painting gardens.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: scope and resources
- This post sets out some possible themes and an agenda for the project. It also lists some resources in terms of links to websites and books.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art - a new squidoo lens
- Highlights the introduction of this lens and explains its purpose and content.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: 2 bookshops and 1001 Gardens
- Commentary on two bookshops in London with excellent art sections and a book containing the details of 1001 recommended gardens around the world
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: In the gardens of Impressionism
- A review of the book "In the gardens of Impressionism" by Dr Clare A P Willsdon
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art - The Order Beds at Kew Gardens
- This post explains my approach to sketching gardens "en plein air". The subject is part of Kew Gardens
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Pastel paintings of gardens in Spain
- This is about some pastel paintings of gardens created as a result of a visit to Andalucia in Spain. It comments on the gardens and the process adopted for painting in them
- Making a Mark: Palacio de Mondragon, Ronda
- A visit to the Palacio de Mondragon in Ronda (Andalucia, Spain) and a drawing of its garden - and how to convert a potential disaster into a productive outcome.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: the concept and the art of the garden
- The Art of the Garden was an exhibition which took place at the Tate Britain Gallery in London between June-August 2004. This post comments on the themes used by artists for portraying gardens
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Drawings and Paintings by Van Gogh
- I've very much enjoyed doing the research for images, information and links about the drawings and paintings Van Gogh made of gardens - both public and private. He seems to have made gardens one of his prime and enduring motifs for experimenting with mark-making and drawing in both monochrome and colour.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Are you a Veggie?
- This time of year vegetables are looking really good and I've been trying to tour round various kitchen gardens, vegetable plots and allotments trying to find good specimens to develop into drawings.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: The Painter's Garden
- I have been delighting all month in reading - very slowly - "The Painter's Garden" a monumental catalogue of nearly 400 pages produced by Sabine Schulz and published by Hatje Cantz. I'd go so far as to say I've been enjoying it that much that I've been slowing down to avoid finishing it.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Arts and Crafts Gardens #1
- I particularly like gardens associated with the Arts and Crafts heritage. I think it's because they are very much about the quality and integrity of the visual experience. This blog post aims to summarise some of the features of these gardens - which one would expect to maybe see featured in any artwork associated with them.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art continues - with Monet
- Now just in case anybody doesn't know much about Monet and gardens, I thought I'd start with some links to biographical information about the man himself and then some to information about his garden at Giverny. Have a peek at the gardens and you'll see a number of the reasons why I'm a fan. I finish with some brief information to the books that I expect to be using for my research.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Monet and Argenteuil
- Monet is forever associated with the garden at Giverny. However some of the most famous Impressionist paintings of gardens are associated with the time Monet spent at Argenteuil.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art - Monet and Vétheuil
- At Vétheuil, Monet's paintings of gardens are fewer but continue to feature those he lives with. He painted four views of this view of the gardens at Vétheuil
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Monet and the flower garden at Giverny
- When I visited Giverny for the first time I was immediately struck by the fact that Monet did not only create art with oils. His garden was also an artistic creation and is quite simply a living picture created out of nature. It's a sublime example of an artist selecting and creating the objects and their arrangements as part of the 'set-up' for his painting.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Monet and the Mediterranean
- Before tackling the water garden at Giverny, I first want to look at the paintings of gardens which Monet did while travelling in the Mediterranean in the 1880s and which preceded the development of the water garden.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Monet - the story so far
- This post summarises some of the lessons I've learned so far about Monet and includes a pastel painting which tries to exemplify some of things I've learned.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Monet and the water garden at Giverny
- Of all the images associated with Monet, the water lilies and the Japanese bridge over the pool in the water garden at Giverny are perhaps the most well known. For more than 25 years, he painted them again and again. As a result there are many versions in museums and art galleries around the world.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Monet's final Nympheas
- This post is about the final and probably some of the most famous of Monet's paintings - the Grand Decorations which are now housed in the Orangerie Museum in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. They had a long birth........His enthusiasm for work was generated by the notion of developing an idea he'd initially had nearly 20 years earlier. His aim was to produce paintings of the pond and the water lilies to fit a circular room so that they immerse the viewer of his paintings in the sensation of the pond. The notion was that the experience of the still water and the lilies would both soothe and delight at the same time. He saw the room as a refuge where cares would ebb away. It had worked for him and could work for others.
Exhibitions - drawings and paintings of gardens
gardens in art and exhibitions
- Tate Britain | Past Exhibitions | Art of the Garden
- Art of the Garden - Tate Britain
3 June - 30 August 2004
An exhibition examining the relationship between the garden and British art over the past two hundred years. - Home and Garden: Paintings and Drawings of English Middle Class Urban Domestic Space 1914 to the present
- Geffrye Museum in East London
This third instalment on the broad theme of 'Home and Garden' reveals an urban middle class and their living patterns (as captured in one exposure). Many of the families have incorporated small gardens into the living rooms, scenes of spatial definition or indeed of anarchy, broader creative influences and individualised behavioural patterns.
BOOKS: Art History - artists drawing and painting gardens
with a particular emphasis on Impressionism
I own all these books and recommend them all.
The Painter's Garden: Design, Inspiration, Delight
Read my book review in Gardens in Art: The Painter's Garden
I have been delighting all month in reading - very slowly - "The Painter's Garden" a monumental catalogue of nearly 400 pages produced by Sabine Schulz and published by Hatje Cantz. I'd go so far as to say I've been enjoying it that much that I've been slowing down to avoid finishing it.
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In the Gardens of Impressionism
Read my book review in Gardens in Art: In the gardens of Impressionism
The book's author is Dr Clare A P Willsdon, a senior lecturer in the History of Art at Glasgow University who is making a study of the role of gardens in nineteenth and twentieth century art.
The book was published by Thames and Hudson in 2004. The book tends towards the very academic and has a very impressive section for references but it is also very readable and is absolutely packed with information about the Impressionist movement and the lives they led within the times they lived in. Those who enjoy Impressionist paintings will undoubtedly both enjoy and learn from this book.
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Impressionist Gardens
An exploration of the Impressionists' shared passion for painting gardens
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Gardens in Art - Art History links
- Monet's house and Garden at Giverny
- Links for visitors to Monet's garden at Giverny
- Charleston - an artists home and garden
- Charleston was the home and country meeting place for the writers, painters and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group.
BOOKS: Monet and Giverny
I love Giverny and I love Monet's paintings of the Giverny
I've visited Giverney and have both these books and recommend both.
The first one is very good about the garden.
The Debra Mancoff one is very good about the paintings
The first one is very good about the garden.
The Debra Mancoff one is very good about the paintings
Monet's Passion: Ideas, Inspiration and Insights from the Painter's Gardens
Elizabeth Murray discusses the development and maintenance of Claude Monet's Giverny estate as well as Monet's color theories, design elements, and use of light and shade. Richly illustrated with Murray's lush photographs of the present-day Giverny gardens, Monet's Passion also offers full-color illustrations of the gardens drawn to scale
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Monet's Garden in Art
In the first book to focus on Monet's garden at Giverny as seen through his paintings, Debra Mancoff offers a revealing insight into the artist and his work.
Release Date: 04/23/2001
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BOOKS: More books about Monet's Garden at Giverny
Making A Mark - drawing and painting gardens
Katherine Tyrrell's blog about: - Making marks with pastels, pencils and pen and ink - Creating new drawings and paintings - Influences on developing both artwork and art careers - Interviews with artists - Information about resources for artists and art
I just like drawing gardens - what can I say?!
These are all posts which are about gardens but which are not related to or listed in the "gardens in art" project
These are all posts which are about gardens but which are not related to or listed in the "gardens in art" project
- Making a Mark: Making A Mark in 2007 - the plan...and an update
- Initial thoughts about the Gardens in Art project - and a record of my visit to Munstead Wood in Surrey, the home of famous Arts and Crafts gardener Gertrude Jekyll
- Making a Mark: Kew Gardens in June
- I can highly recommend Kew Gardens in June. It's full of flowers associated with Georgia O'Keeffe - arum lilies, poppies and irises and masses of flowers more commonly associated with English Gardens - peonies, roses. Kew also has a great glasshouse which has wonderful orchids which are another favourite O'Keeffe flower.
- Making a Mark: Society of Botanical Artists - Flowers and Gardens Exhibition 2007
- The annual Flowers and Gardens exhibition by the Society of Botanical Artists at Central Hall Westminster maintained its very high standard in 2007 and reflected the Society's willingness to include a wide variety of approaches and media for the representation of botanical art including fruit, vegetables and fungi as well as flowers and gardens.
- Making a Mark: Views from Rievaulx Terrace
- A visit to Rievaulx Terrace in Yorkshire(looked after by the National Trust)
- Making a Mark: The Rill Garden at Wollerton Old Hall Garden in Shropshire
- Wollerton Old Hall Garden is a real find. For me it's the nearest equivalent to Sissinghurst that I've ever come across in the north of England - and my mother and I are veteran garden visitors. Lots of small garden rooms - each with its own very distinctive personality.
(This is the garden portrayed in the image at the top of this lens) - Making a Mark: Autumn at Sissinghurst
- Sissinghurst Castle in Kent closes its house and gardens to the public at the end of October and does not reopen until March. I visited the garden late on Monday afternoon when it was very quiet and sketched the sixteenth century tower, in which Vita Sackville West had her writing room, and the grounds from the bank beyond the moat at the back of the gardens.
- Making a Mark: The White Garden, Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
- A record of a visit to the White Garden at Sissinghurst in Kent
- Making a Mark: Palacio de Mondragon, Ronda
- A story of painting in pastel in and of a Mudejar Palace garden in Ronda, a disaster, how it was remedied and how it all came right in the end.
- Making a Mark: Japanese Art - drawing the Chokushi Mon in Kew Gardens #1
- We visited the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew this week and I attempted to draw the Japanese Gateway (the Chokushi-Mon) while at the same time trying to remember all the things I'd been learning as part of my Japanese Art Project. This post is about I designed my sketch and the things I now need to do to translate it into a more formal drawing.
- Making a Mark: A visit to the Chelsea Physic Garden
- The Chelsea Physic Garden, in between the River Thames and the Chelsea Embankment and Royal Hospital Road, is a real haven of peace as well as being a wonderful garden for artists interested in botanical art. The Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society was formed by a small groups of botanical artists in 1995, with the primary aim of recording in paintings and drawings, the plants growing in the Physic Garden.
- Making a Mark: gardens
- All posts which are labelled "gardens"
- Making a Mark: Search results for garden
- All posts containing the word "garden"
Travels with a sketchbook in......parks and gardens
When I travel, I sketch. When I sketch on my travels I record it here. Plus information about the history and facilities of places I visit and lots of related links for those who want to know more........ and best viewed in Firefox
This is all about sketching in parks and gardens - which is where I often start when producing more formal artwork involving gardens, trees or views.
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: garden
- All sketchbook blog posts about 'gardens'
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Sketching the Japanese Landscape at Kew Gardens
- This is the second of two blogs posts about a visit this week to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. The other post is on my other blog - Japanese Art - drawing the Chokushi Mon in Kew Gardens #1. It about how I designed my sketch in relation to specific aspects of Japanese art and the things I now need to do to translate it into a more formal drawing. If you do sketches to provide material for more formal work you may it interesting.
This post will contain a few basic reminders about useful practices when sketching - plus a few other items of interest to those visiting Kew this Spring and Summer. - Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Great Dixter
- Great Dixter in East Sussex is a truly wonderful garden but presents problems for those wishing to draw or paint.
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Early morning light in Cheshire
- I was staying at the home of my cousin and her husband in Cheshire earlier this week and found the clocks going back on Sunday meant I was getting up earlier than usual. So I took some time to sketch the views in very early morning light from rooms which look out from the front and rear of the house over gardens and fields. I even managed a sunrise!
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Wisley in Autumn - and the National Fruit Show
- One of the lakes (at Wisley) had five very small trees whose leaves had already turned and they looked quite odd amongst so much greenery. They are however going to make some fabulous artwork for my series on drawings of gardens when I work out sizes and crops from the photos and the sketch I did.
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Summer at Sissinghurst
- At the end of July I visited the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle - one of the most noted gardens for flowers in England. After all the rain we've had this summer, the Cottage Garden and the White Garden were both quite spectacular.
For those who have not visited before - a couple of warnings.
- The gardens are both intimate and 'full on' and swamp you with images.
- It can be very difficult if not impossible to find somewhere to sit when the gardens are open to the public.
The combination of scale and the number of visitors (it has to have timed entrance arrangements) and the total lack of scope for bringing in a chair and/or easel means that it is far from easy to either create a good composition or get much work done while the garden is open to the public.
However there is a solution! - Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: 16th Worldwide Sketchcrawl - the result
- Sketching in Greenwich Park
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Henry Moore in Kew Gardens
- At the end of October last year, we visited Kew Gardens on a sunny afternoon in order to get a lot of a fresh air, see the trees on the turn, walk a lot, sketch a bit and view some of the very many works by Henry Moore which are currently dotted around the Gardens until the end of March.
How to sketch plein air..... in gardens
- Pastels and Pencils - A Making A Mark Guide: Sketching Plein Air with Coloured Pencils
- Sketching Plein Air with Coloured Pencils - a Making A Mark guide by Katherine Tyrrell.
This FREE GUIDE is about a sketch I started at Kew Gardens and completed at home. It covers:
- how to get used to a place and find a view to sketch
- how to use your camera as a tool and to collect reference photographs
- developing my version of a thumbnail sketch;
- how to consider and select colours;
- developing a sketch while working plein air and
- finishing - working back home / in the studio.
The guide is a pdf file which can be downloaded for free - and personal and education use only - from my website
BOOKS: How to paint gardens
Contemporary artists - painting gardens
These links are to artists who regularly paint gardens
- Leslie Smith Fine Art - Garden Paintings
- Leslie Smith's garden paintings convey an atmosphere of intense stillness produced by layers of very fine detail, which take weeks of work to achieve. He likes to contrast the formal structure of lawns, hedges and topiary, walls and garden architecture with the informality of trees, plants, flowers and water. He achieves a rich depth of colour by using oil paints on canvas or board.
- John Dyer / Alan Titchmarsh Limited Edition Prints
- John Dyer / Alan Titchmarsh
Alan Titchmarsh's Last Summer at Barleywood Painted by John Dyer
"It is rare to meet someone who has the same appreciation of atmosphere, colour, texture and the magic that can be created in a garden, and in John we have found someone who understands exactly what we were trying to do."
Alan Titchmarsh MBE 2002 - Pastels and Pencils - Houses & Gardens - fine art drawings by Katherine Tyrrell
- Houses and Gardens by Katherine Tyrrell: a gallery of original fine art drawings of houses and gardens around the world in pastels and coloured pencils
- Landscape Paintings of Garden Scenes by Jennifer Young
- A virtual art gallery of original oil paintings, fine art prints, and limited edition reproductions for sale by visual artist Jennifer Young.
- L. Diane Johnson Garden Painting Gallery
- Plein air landscape paintings in acrylic, pastel, & oil
Garden Gallery - Everyone responds in some way to a garden, whether a lone blossom or in fullest splendor. - Paintings Photo Gallery by barbaracoleman at pbase.com
- The La Guardia Community Garden is located at Bleeker Street and La Guardia Place in downtown Manhattan. This series of paintings represent the beginning of my long term commitment to express the color, variety and nuances of this plot of land. Like Monet who painted water lilies and many garden scenes, I am in love with this garden. I paint it in an abstract manner and hope that my lyricism translates into the joy that I feel.
BOOKS: Arts and Crafts Gardens
Historic Gardens
- Museum of Garden History
- The official site of the Museum of Garden History provides information on the world's first Museum of Garden History. The Museum is concerned with Garden History, historic garden tools, the history of Gardening, Garden Design, and gardeners.
BOOKS: Plants and flowers in Art History
Gardens in Art - contemporary gardens
- Tate Britain | Past Exhibitions | Art of the Garden
- Derek Jarman's Garden, Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent.
BOOKS: Artists' Gardens
Visiting Gardens in the UK
Sites which help you to find and/or access gardens
- Garden Visit and Travel Guide
- Map of historic and modern gardens open for public visits in Britain and Ireland. The GARDEN VISIT and TRAVEL GUIDE reviews places of interest to gardeners
- The National Trust
- The National Trust protects special places in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, for ever, for everyone. These include a lot of gardens.
- Royal Horticultural Society
- A Gardening website - The website of Britain's gardening charity - the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) - is the gateway to gardening. The RHS is the world's leading horticultural organisation and the UK's leading gardening charity. Our aim is to protect Britain's gardening heritage and help garden
- National Gardens Scheme - Online Guide to visiting gardens
- Online version of the National garden Scheme's Yellow Book - the guide to gardens which are members of the scheme.
- National Gardens Scheme - purchase Yellow Book Guide
- Shop online and purchase the Yellow book, the National Gardens Scheme to visting gardens.
- Walled Kitchen Gardens Network.
- Our vision is for a renaissance in walled kitchen gardens, bringing together the best of the old and the best of the new. At a time of crisis in farming, walled kitchen gardens can become a part of a more local and sustainable agriculture. And they can be educational, in terms of our history - the story of food, and the lives of the people who produced it - and exploring organic techniques, crops and varieties.
- Essential British Gardens - UK & Ireland Gardens and Arboretums - English Scottish Gardens
- A digest of the finest gardens and arboretums in Britain and Ireland, including plant nurseries with interesting garden displays.
- United Kingdom Database of Historic Parks and Gardens
- This online database contains outline information on places, their locations by local authority, persons associated and links to sources of further information. It has been prepared by Landscapes & Gardens at the University of York, and has been enabled by grants from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust.
BOOKS: So you want to visit a garden.........
Recommended books
Visiting gardens around the world
- The Gardens Guide: Garden finder and tour map
- The Gardens Guide. Use this site to find gardens open to the public around the world. Includes maps for some parts of the world.
- Daily Telegraph: The picturesque gardens at Giverny may be Claude Monet's greatest legacy
- Monet's garden, like his paintings, has become so familiar to us from photographs that we assume we know it without seeing it. But how wrong we can be. I'll never forget the impact of encountering his famous water lily series for the first time at the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris.....
And recently, on a much-anticipated visit to the garden Monet made in the village of Giverny in northern France, I was blown away by the artistry and sheer exuberance of his planting. In books and articles on the garden, the water-lily ponds, wisteria-clad bridge and grand central allée strewn with nasturtiums tend to steal the show. And of course these are stunning. But I spent most of my time wandering among the network of paths and beds in the large walled garden immediately outside the house known as the Clos Normand, or traditional Normandy flower garden. I was charmed and inspired by what I found there.
Vegetable and Kitchen Gardens
- Royal Horticultural Society - Gardens : Wisley Tour - Model Vegetable Garden
- Along with the Model Fruit Gardens this garden is one of Wisley's main practical demonstration features, showing old and new crops along with techniques and methods of vegetable production. Divided into smaller plots the garden provides interest throughout the growing season.
Blogs about gardening
A selection of blogs - which make you think and have good links
- Garden Rant
- GardenRant: Uprooting the Gardening World
- Dirt By Amy Stewart
- 100% organic articles, essays, and rants by garden writer Amy Stewart
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