Why Gardens Can Rank as Fine Art

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Forthcoming Arts Society Chiswick lecture will be held on Zoom

A talk entitled The Subtle Science and Exact Art of Colour in English Garden Design - Why Gardens can rank as Fine Art - is to be streamed live on Zoom.

It is been given by Timothy Walker and is presented by the Arts Society Chiswick on Thursday 14 May. The lecture will start at 8.15pm. Available to members only.

Information on joining is here.

In 1888 Gertrude Jekyll wrote a short but seminal article in which she urged the readers to “remember that in a garden we are painting a picture”.

This talk looks at how to apply this principle in designing a border, but it also looks at the ways in which a border is different from a painting. However, it goes further than this and looks at how contemporary work of the likes of Turner, Monet, Rothko, Jackson Pollack and Hockney evolved in parallel with ideas about what a garden or border should look like.

Timothy Walker was Director of the Oxford University Botanic Garden from 1988 to 2014. Since 2014 he has been a college lecturer and tutor at Somerville College, Oxford. Gardens are often thought of a place where science and art meet on equal terms. His lectures investigate this relationship.

May 9, 2020