horticulture

Christmas Fayre at West Dean Gardens

20/12/2012

This weekend Luke, Orla and I went to the Christmas event at West Dean Gardens. This was the first time this year I got to take my camera there, as we had missed our usual pilgrimage on my birthday, anniversary etc. We had a day of unexpected sunshine and it wasn’t too cold. There was a carousel, ice skating (no pics of that though, oh no), scavenger hunt, Father Christmas and all the usual stuff. Didn’t take as many shots as I would have liked, but here are some favourites, the rest are on Flickr. Other than that, working hard on completing my sketchbook for the 2013 Sketchbook Project, and illustrative relaunch in the new year.

Remembering West Dean Gardens

27/08/2012

It was my wedding anniversary on the 3rd August , we have been married ten years. One of the places we revisit as it has so many happy memories for us of when we were ‘courting’, taking Orla there as a baby and toddler, is West Dean Gardens. I include here an article I wrote for UK Handmade about West Dean, some images and a slide show. We went to Cornwall for our anniversary this year, but we are going to West Dean next month for the Apple Affair.

Breachfield Gardens – September 2011

06/10/2011

Here are a selection of some of the shots I took at Breachfield Gardens (many thanks to Jeanette House and her family for the opportunity) when I was in Shaftesbury a couple of weeks ago, if you are interested in seeing them all, then check out the set on my Flickr account. Also, below is a slide show I made of some of the best which is on my YouTube account. Enjoy!

West Dean Gardens – August 2011

23/09/2011

I made this today, after having originally created it using One True Media on YouTube (which by the way was shit) and rendered very badly. I then downloaded Windows Movie Maker this afternoon, worked out how it worked, edited all the images, ripped the music from one of my fave classical CDs and put this together. It is a collection of photography taken at West Dean Gardens this summer, and I have set it to the music of Orfeo ed Euridce by Christoph Willibald Gluck. I am rather proud of it.

West Dean Gardens

22/08/2011

Yesterday Luke, Orla and I went to West Dean Gardens, in Singleton, West Sussex. One of my favourite places, and for Luke and I, a very special and important place. I took my Canon naturally, and though we didn’t have long there, I managed to get some decent shots, my favourites of which I feature here. To see the whole collection, go view the Flickr set, and if you wish to know more about West Dean Gardens, then you can go read the article I wrote for UK Handmade. Oh, and the bottom image, of the tree wrapped in ribbon (more shots of that can be viewed on the Flickr set) is an ongoing project by Magenta Gang. Magenta is from Korea and currently studying a post grad Fine Art course at West Dean and has been working on the tree project since June.

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