With Forth Valley Open Studios less than two weeks away it is a hectic time for us all.
To add to the pressure this Sunday we open our garden to the public , along with several others in our small town of Bridge of Allan under Scotland’s Open Garden scheme.
My interest in gardens dovetails with my artistic work so I was interested to hear a discussion on the radio from this year’s Chelsea Flower Show over whether gardens could be considered “works of art”.
Some gardeners expressed surprise. Well, having experience of both I am under no illusion: gardens are works of art.
During last year”s Open Studios it was a salutary lesson to witness public taste: folk preferred my garden to the works in my studio.
I think it was the sense of discovery they experienced ( it is designed on the principle of outdoor rooms) combined with a sense that they were viewing something organic and living not still images on a wall.
Whatever.
