Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #636335 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

From the Inside Flap
"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 cele brating 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 many others, Hayward explains how, by looking at fine paintings you admire, you can more carefully choose your garden style, the relationship between house and garden, the overall composition, specific design principles, roles trees play in the garden, color, and how to bring 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. He is also a contributing editor for Fine Gardening Magazine. Gordon travels extensively across the country, designing residential gardens and lecturing on garden design. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont.
Front cover photographs: Upper left: Garden of Sybile Kreutzberger and Pamela Schwerdt, England, 2008 Gordon Hayward Upper right: Amedeo Bocchi, In the Park, 2008 SCALA/Art Resource, New York, New York Lower: Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 2008 SCALA/Art Resource, New York, New York Back cover photographs: Upper left: Willard Leroy Metcalf, Dogwood Blossoms, 2008 The Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut Upper right: Garden of Carol Mercer, Long Island, New York, 2008 Gordon Hayward Lower left: 2008 John Glover Lower right: The author's garden, 2008 Gordon Hayward Front flap photo: Claude Monet, The Flower Garden, 2008 Reunion des Musees Nationaux/Art Resource, New York, New York Jacket design by Susan McClellan

About the Author
Gordon Hayward holds degrees from Wesleyan University and began gardening in the 1970s. In 1984, he turned to the work of garden design, lecturing, and writing full time. He consults throughout the Northeast for residential clients, their architects, and builders. He is the author of several books, including 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. Hayward is a certified member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.

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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.

Customer Reviews

makes design principles come to life
I love this book. It describes garden design ideas in a whole new way--one that does not take the typical landscape architecture approach. Instead it takes advantage of the fact that most of us make our initial approach to any garden with our eyes. Comparing a two-dimensional painting to a three dimensional garden may not seem like an obvious way to begin a garden design, but it works, and so much better than trying to imagine a garden using an overhead or bird's eye layout. Hayward's book will help you to first imagine the view you want to create, then use design principles to bring it to three-dimensional life.
Gardeners should note - this is NOT a plant book. There are plenty of those.

A solid guide to the ephemeral moment
Gordon Hayward has outdone himself, with this, his tenth book on garden design. A thoughtful selection of fine art reproductions are paired with vibrant photos of contemporary gardens. The images provide a strong visual complement to the informative and instructive text. Hayward looks to the artist's eye as a guide to the creation of garden designs that express harmony, contrast, mood and movement. I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing to deepen their appreciation for the beauty found within the frame of a painting or along the garden path.

You've done it again, Gordon Hayward--created a masterpiece
I was fortunate enough to be a part of the awed audience at the Annual Meeting in Virginia Beach for The Garden Club of Virginia and heard Gordon Hayward present a fabulous program and slide show based on his book. I HAD to have this book once I was overwhelmed by information about the beauty and possibilities connecting gardening and fine painting.