BRATTLEBORO-On Saturday, April 25, at 5:30 p.m., garden writer, designer, columnist, and lecturer Gordon Hayward will discuss how visual art, architecture, and place inspire the gardens we imagine and design.
The talk will take place at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC).
Hayward has been designing gardens professionally from his home in southern Vermont since 1985, with particular emphasis on gardens in the Northeast, as well as the eastern shore of Maryland.
He wrote for Horticulture magazine for 25 years and, with four other designers, participated in nine multi-city speaking tours across the U.S. He has authored 11 books on garden design, two of which have won national awards.
“The current exhibitions on view at the museum examine our relationship with the natural world in some way,” BMAC Director of Exhibitions Sarah Freeman said in a news release. Artists have been inspired by nature for centuries, and art has similarly provided creative fuel for landscape designers and horticulturalists, she said. “Gardeners are artists themselves, using the land as their canvas to experiment with ideas of color, texture, and symmetry, just to name a few.”
Admission is free. Advance registration is recommended, but walk-ins are welcome. Register at brattleboromuseum.org or call 802-257-0124, ext. 101. For more information, visit brattleboromuseum.org.
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