Garden Design and Art Subject of Clark Talk
WILLIAMSTOWN — Nationally recognized garden designer Gordon Hayward will explore the visual language shared between painters and garden designers in the illustrated lecture "Fine Paintings as Inspiration for Garden Design" at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Sunday, April 27, at 2 p.m.The lecture is free; a book signing will follow.
Hayward has been writing for Horticulture Magazine for 25 years, is a contributing editor at Fine Gardening Magazine and the author of nine books on garden design. His 2003 book "Your House, Your Garden: A Foolproof Approach to Garden Design" won a book award from The American Horticultural Society. Hayward has lectured at art museums and garden organizations across the country regularly since 1995. His new book, "Art and the Gardener," will be available this fall.
He and his wife, Mary, have been developing a 1 1/2-acre garden around their 220-year-old farmhouse in Southern Vermont for 23 years, as well as a tiny garden outside their cottage in the Cotswold Hills of England.
In his lecture, Hayward will juxtapose images of paintings and gardens to explore the many levels of similarity between how painters and garden designers construct their images. Among the many works of art illustrated will be the Clark's "The Duck Pond" by Claude Monet; "Sleeping Girl with a Cat" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir; "Wood Gatherers: An Autumn Afternoon" by George Inness; and Edgar Degas' "The Dancing Lesson."
The Clark is at 225 South St. The galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 to 5. Admission is free through May 31. For more information, call 413-458-2303 or visit www.clarkart.edu.
