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  • Saturday, August 22, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – APPetizing Edibles

    On Saturday, August 22 from 10 – 11:30 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, instructor Ellen Hoverkamp will give an introduction to imaging food using a flatbed scanner and editing scans using mobile device photo apps. Feast your eyes, satisfy your APPetite, play with food. Ellen will lecture and demonstrate imaging basics using a flatbed photo scanner as a camera for macro and still life photography with plants and vegetables from Tower Hill’s gardens. Sample images will be stored online and shared with workshop participants for adaptation using free and low cost photo editing apps for mobile devices. Through the use of a wifi enabled projector, participants will be able to send their app enhanced scans from mobile device (smartphone, iPad) to the projection screen. THBG members $35, nonmembers $45. Register online at www.towerhillbg.org.

    Pre registration is mandatory. A short list of mobile device photo and projector driver apps will be emailed in advance for download to the participant’s mobile device prior to the class. Ellen Hoverkamp has been using flatbed scanners for digital imaging since 1997. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and solo shows throughout New England, New York, New Jersey and Ohio, including a 4 month exhibition of her work at the James Beard Foundation in NYC and most recently in a 6 person “Farm to Fork” art show in California. Ellen had 2 solo shows at Tower Hill and was THBG’s first “Artist In Residence.” She won the Garden Writer’s Association 2013 Gold Medal in Photography for her gardening book Natural Companions, published in 2012 by STC Books. Her work appeared on the cover of Organic Gardening magazine in 2014, has been featured in several periodicals, most recently, on the cover and within the Spring 2015 issue of Sweet Paul Magazine.
    Please visit www.myneighborsgarden.com to view her work.

  • Thursday, July 30, 6-7:30 – Opening Reception, “Illuminating Nature” Scanner Photography

    Ellen Hoverkamp was a pioneer in using the flatbed scanner as a tool to create fine art.  Her technique involves making intricate arrangements from plants, vegetables and natural objects.  The light from the scanner reflects the subject making the arrangement appear to glow against a dark background.  Inspiration for her work comes from the Victorian botanical illustration, particularly “Language of Flowers” bouquets, and Dutch still life painting.  Hovercamp gratefully utilizes cuttings offered from local gardeners and farmers in her scanned compositions. This collaboration with the gardening community began in 1997 and continues today, as she works to preserve souvenirs of the garden.  She views her pictures, often named for the gardeners, as portraits of flowers and also portraits of those who grew them.  “Friends, family, neighbors, and even people I hardly know invite me to cut and use their flowers and vegetables for my work.”  See more of Ellen Hoverkamp’s work at www.myneighborsgarden.com.  The Exhibit will run from July 28 – September 16, 2009 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts. The reception will feature a cash bar and light refreshments.  Free and open to the public.    For more information, call 508-869-6111 or log on to www.towerhillbg.org.