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"Inspired Gardens" Exhibit at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Print E-mail
Editor: Brenda Bonneville   
Tuesday, 05 May 2009

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On view both in the Visitor Center and throughout the Central Gardens through May 31.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ art exhibit, ‘The Inspired Garden’ showcases works by nearly all of the 24 artists featured in Judy Paolini and Nance Trueworthy’s stunning and elegant new book, The Inspired Garden: Twenty-Four Artists Share Their Vision.

The pieces on view in this exciting spring show will range from detailed realistic “portraits” of flowers to sculpted interpretations of feral seeds to an installation piece that highlights nearly-extinct heirloom plants. The show will include paintings, prints, sculpture, pottery, photography, collage, glass work and conceptual art. All of the participants in the exhibit are full-time artists from New England who have achieved a high level of recognition in their field.

Painter James Aponovich of New Hampshire was the state’s artist laureate in 2006. Peter Milton’s intricately detailed lithographs hang in the Tate Gallery in London and are in collections worldwide. Maggie Foskett has taken the quasi-photographic technique cliché-verre to a new level that magnifies and transforms the tiny details of the natural world. Gary Haven Smith is known as “the man who bends stone” with his magnificent sculpted curls of granite, as in the fountain he created for Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens; but his “paintings” of lead and slate interpret garden imagery with surprising grace and subtlety. Both Harry White and Sara Crisp use plant materials directly in their work with very different results.

For more information, please visit the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens website.

(Image: Cover of "The Inspired Garden" by Judy Paolini and Nance Trueworthy)

 

 

 


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