Art and the Gardener: Fine Painting as Inspiration for Garden Design
"The study of art is the most important study a garden designer can pursue." -Marco Polo Stufano, garden designer and curator\ In Art and the Gardener, Gordon Hayward's tenth book on garden design, he makes a radical departure from his earlier approaches in order to explore elements of visual language across two artistic disciplines-fine painting and garden design-in hopes that the remarkable crosscurrents will help reveal how to design or simply appreciate your garden with greater acuity. In...
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"The study of art is the most important study a garden designer can pursue." - Marco Polo StufanoIn Art and the Gardener, Gordon Hayward's tenth book on garden design, he makes a radical departure from his earlier approaches in order to explore elements of visual language across two artistic disciplines-fine painting and garden design-in hopes that the remarkable crosscurrents will help reveal how to design or simply appreciate your garden with greater acuity. In celebrating the visual language garden designers share with painters and artists such as Thomas Cole, Camille Pissarro, Piet Mondrian, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt, Vincent Van Gogh, and more, Hayward explains how to choose your garden style, the relationship between house and garden, the overall composition, specific design principles, roles trees play in the garden, color, and bringing it all together. Gordon Hayward is the author of several books, including The Welcoming Garden, Small Buildings, Small Gardens, The Intimate Garden: Twenty Years and Four Seasons in Our Garden, Garden Paths: Inspiring Designs and Practical Projects, and Your House, Your Garden: A Foolproof Approach to Garden Design, as well as a variety of articles for Horticulture Magazine. Gordon travels extensively across the country and in Europe, designing residential gardens and lecturing on various gardening topics. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont.
When designing your own garden, you set out to create an engaging, interesting place in which you, your family, and guests can live. As a novice in this sometimes daunting world of garden design, you may feel inadequate to the task.
Acknowledgments 7Introduction 9Step I: Choose Your Style 17 Romanticism 18Classical Axial Design 22Impressionism 26Cubism 30Minimalism 34Abstract Expressionism 38Pattern and Decoration 42Contemporary 46Step II: The Relationship between House and Garden 53Garden as the Setting for the House 54Arriving at the Front Door 56View from the Front Door 58Views from Windows out into the Garden 60A Terrace Relates Inside to Outside 62Sitting in the Garden 64Step III: Overall Composition 69The Process 69The Parts of a Whole Painting, a Whole Garden 73Ten Methods of Composition for the Lansdscape Painter and Garden Designer 81Step IV: Design Principles 91Straight Paths 92The Tunnel 94Curving Paths 96Related Curves 98Light: Dappled Shade 100Focal Points 102Man-Made Structures Contrasting with Plants 104The Outlook 106Contrasting Textures and Colors 108Creating Entrances, Transitions, and Edges 110Step V: Roles Trees Play in the Garden 113Vertical Trees in a Horizontal Landscape 114Creating Intimacy 118Trees in Winter 120The Orchard and Allee: Lines of Trees as Structural Elements 122Low-Pruned Trees Compress Views under Them 124Positive and Negative Space 126Step VI: Color Harmony or Contrast 129The Gardener's Color Wheel 130Color Schemes for the Garden 133The Vocabulary of Color 133The Power of White 133Green: Keeper of the Peace 134Grays and Gray Greens 134Contrasting Colors in the Garden 134Harmonious Colors in the Garden 135Color Combinations 136Step VII: Bringing It All Together: Claude Monet's Life,Garden, and Art 151Floral Arrangements: Art in Bloom 159Appendixes 162Index 169
