Timothy Walker on "The Subtle Science and Exact Art of Colour in English Garden Design – Why gardening can rank as a fine art".
Lecture by the Arts Society - English Garden Design
Tuesday 20th May
In 1882 Gertrude Jekyll wrote a short but seminal article in The Garden in which she urged the readers to “remember that in a garden we are painting a picture”. As an accomplished watercolour artist, Miss Jekyll was familiar with the principles of using colours, but she felt that in gardens these principles “had been greatly neglected”. This talk looks at how to apply these principles 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 and Jackson Pollack evolved in parallel with ideas about what a garden or a border should look like.
After nearly 20 years in the British Army Imogen went to the University of Kent to study Anglo-Saxon & Medieval History and Art, graduating with 1st Class honours. She followed this with a MPhil from Birmingham University. She works as a freelance lecturer across Britain and Europe as well as lecturing on cruise ships and running study tours. She has written several books and is a Freeman of the City of London, being a member of the Company of Communicators. She is an Advisor on memorial and monuments for Canterbury’s Diocesan Advisory Committee.
Timothy read Botany at University College, Oxford and after graduating worked as a trainee at Oxford Botanic Garden, the Saville Garden Windsor and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. In 1985 he was awarded a Master of Horticulture by the Royal Horticultural Society of London and from 1988 – 2014 he was Horti Praefectus at the Oxford Botanic Garden. In 2010 he was elected as a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London and in the same year, presented a 3-part series of films on the history of botany for BBC4. Since 2014 he has been a tutor in Plant Biology at Somerville College, Oxford.
About the Arts Society
The Arts Society Wensleydale is the local arts society group (formerly known as NADFAS) for Richmond, Masham, Leyburn and the Dales.
Are you interested in the arts and discovering more? The Arts Society Wensleydale can offer you an excellent programme of talks from carefully selected lecturers who are experts in their fields and chosen for their excellent presentation skills and their academic knowledge.
Timings & Admission
2pm start
Visitors and non-members welcome, but a charitable donation is appreciated.
