Three and a Half Seasons
Woburn, in Bedfordshire, is a small town with a rich history and some outstanding gardens. Each year the members of “Woburn Open Gardens” welcome in the public over a week end in early summer to admire their creations.
We were given permission to draw these gardens throughout the year giving us a chance to experience the changing seasons in the same place, a real privilege.
We began the project in the summer of 2019 and worked through to spring 2020 when lock down shut us all in. The gardeners of Woburn have been very gracious, unfailingly helpful and generous with supplies of coffee and biscuits.
We were given permission to draw these gardens throughout the year giving us a chance to experience the changing seasons in the same place, a real privilege.
We began the project in the summer of 2019 and worked through to spring 2020 when lock down shut us all in. The gardeners of Woburn have been very gracious, unfailingly helpful and generous with supplies of coffee and biscuits.
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What were we doing perched on garden furniture, steps or tree stumps in the middle of winter, pencil or brush in hand? We were not behaving like cameras, accurately and dispassionately reproducing the visual world, each pixel of light and colour no more and no less significant than any other.
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The drawings we were making were the result of a dialogue between our brains and hands, picking out what felt meaningful to us, the time of year and the place itself as an expression of the gardener who made it.
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Open Gardens 2020 was initially postponed and then cancelled.
We are pleased to finally be in a position to have our exhibition over the weekend of 19th & 20th June 2021 which will coincide with Woburn Open Gardens. We hope this page will provide some idea, to those people kind enough to give us access, of what we have made in response to their creations. |
