With her background as an artist/sculptor and garden designer, a graduate of the Landscape Design and History Program of Radcliffe at Harvard University, Karin Stanley will share some of her process and practical ‘how to’ ideas intended to access new and deeper elements that will help you create a meaningful garden within your garden.This Massachusetts Horticultural Society will take place on June 10 at 7 pm at The Gardens at Elm Bank. In her instructional lecture, she draws inspiration from art and poetry, Ancient Ireland, Scotland and other places from her journeys. Learn how to capture a different experience in your garden, whether a new space or a new place. Come away with thought provoking ideas using mindfully selected, plants and shrubs, materials, lighting, sculpture, water, and other embellishments – while sharing the road map she developed on how to gather and create a ‘quiet and meaningful garden room’. Register at www.masshort.org
Karin Stanley is an Irish born artist and garden designer. A passionate observer of the changing landscape in Ireland and Scotland; Karin spends time there annually, drawing her inspiration from the language of the land, the light, the stone, the air. Along with her interest in Celtic archaeology, Megalithic art, the influence of the Arts and Crafts Period and also the incredible wide range of history of Irish and Scottish Gardens. These are the influences and precedents for work in her garden sculpture and garden design and poetry.
Ms Stanley has lived in the United States for over thirty years. Originally a knitwear designer interested in textures, fibers, patterns and symbolism – Art wear in knit form. Over the years her work has evolved from knitwear to costume in theatre, film, and video. Later she shifted her interest to garden design and history. Always working in a three dimensional world started creating her sculpture in 1995 Karin went back to study Landscape design and history and graduated from the Landscape design program at Radcliffe college in 2000.
Her most recent commissions included an installation in Perth Australia last march, a series of installations in Virginia . The Celtic Goddess of the seasons, created in Limestone and granite which was dedicated the Lower multi-faith Chapel At Wellesley College,, in Massachusetts, In June the installation of new six foot Celtic Stela ‘Swirling Life’ in a Washington DC residence Most recently a commemorative ten foot sculpture ‘Stela – Nurture’ at the front of the new Carroll School campus in Lincoln, where she also designed the garden. Also local: the Celtic Sundial at Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
