Arts Society Sarum Lecture
- Members: FREE / Visitors: Donation
- 09 Dec 26
- Methodist Church, St Edmunds Church Street, Salisbury
- 10:50 - 12:00
After Gertrude Jekyll: English Gardens of the 20th Century.
James Bolton
The English garden of the early years of the C20th was almost as significant, in terms of worldwide influence, as the landscapes of William Kent and ‘Capability’ Brown. The gardens created, in particular by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, set a standard against which English gardens would be measured for the next 60 years. Modernism, instinctively mistrusted by the English, swept over Europe and America at precisely this period and only in the 1960s and ‘70s, were brave steps taken to establish an alternative to the Arts and Crafts style. The third and contemporary strand of C20th garden design is different again, a curious mixture of formality, harking back to the C17th, and informality influenced by the new planting schemes from Holland and Germany. The best contemporary gardens, which point the way forward to the twenty-first century, combine these two elements.
James Bolton
Inchbald School of Design 1990 (Dip ISD). Head Gardener, Old Rectory Farnborough 1990-92. Faculty Director, Design History, Inchbald School of Design. Garden Designer 1992-. A lecturer for The Arts Society since 1995. Organiser of The Arts Society\'s garden study days and tours in UK and Europe. Organises tours to the best private gardens in the UK, Italy, France and South Africa. Garden Mania, a book on garden ornaments, published in 2000.
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