This Berkshire Botanical Garden exhibition at the Leonhardt Gallery showcases Jenine Shereos’ ongoing dialogue with plants and the natural world. Visitors will encounter her dreamlike photographs of floral installations created in France, alongside textiles woven from yarn she hand-dyed using local plants and lichens. Also featured are her intricately crafted leaves stitched entirely with human hair. Shereos, who lives in the Berkshires, is Assistant Professor of Fibers at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Exhibition hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, daily. For more information visit https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/leonhardt-galleries-2026
Come see the Berkshire Botanical Garden through the eyes of our talented students. This exhibition, running through April 19 at the Leonhardt Gallery, showcases artwork inspired by BBG art classes, celebrating the colors, forms and spirit of the natural world. From striking landscapes to playful, imaginative pieces, each work celebrates the joy of exploring nature through art.
Opening reception is Friday, April 3, 5 to 7 p.m. Exhibition hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m, Tuesdays through Sundays. The Gallery is closed on Mondays. Thank you to Floret Flowers for the image below.
Flock, the Berkshire Botanical Garden exhibition running October 18 – November 30 at the Leonhardt Gallery in Stockbridge, will feature all of the paintings from The Illuminated Book of Birds (Timber Press), a new book written and illustrated by Robin Crofut-Brittingham, alongside a selection of works from her ongoing fine art practice. Crofut-Brittingham’s work is grounded in a long-standing interest in natural history. What began as quiet notes in sketchbooks — observations, scribbled bird facts, myth fragments, and found images — has grown into a visual archive that now takes the form of a richly illustrated book featuring birds from around the world and interesting factoids about each one.
Each painting in The Illuminated Book of Birds is a page of research made visible: a conversation between science and story, observation and imagination. The book is both part of and a natural extension of the artist’s broader practice. Come and see the original paintings from the book, featuring over 300 hand-painted birds from around the world. For more information visit https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/leonhardt-galleries-2025
Berkshire Botanical Garden’s 2024 Art/Garden series continues with “Re-Rooted,” an exhibition featuring the drawings of Brooklyn-based artist Ellen Driscoll, who takes her inspiration from the resilience and regenerative power of plants.
The exhibition runs from April 20 through May 27, in the Leonhardt Galleries. The public is invited to the opening reception on Saturday, April 20, from 5 to 7 p.m.
“Plants have been on the Earth much longer than human beings — adapting through eons of environmental change,” said Driscoll. “As our environmental crisis becomes ever more urgent, my art takes its inspiration from the quiet work plants do to survive, adapt and heal our planet.” These drawings reflect on the process by which plants use their root system to clean up toxic contaminants in soil, air and water.
Driscoll’s work is in major collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. Her awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman, and a Fine Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Leonhardt Galleries are open seven days a week, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The address: 5 West Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge, Mass.
Berkshire Botanical Garden announces its featured summer art exhibition, Cynthia Wick’s “Floraborealis,” on display in the Leonhardt Art Galleries through August 27.
“Floraborealis” features joyous, incandescent paintings that emerged out of the dark Covid years of isolation, when the artist took refuge in her studio in Lenox, Massachusetts, going inward for inspiration and exploring her memories of color, light and beauty.
Wick’s love of nature is undeniable as flowers, star-filled skies and bodies of water merge into distant, twinkling, city lights. Her materials are acrylic paint and painted paper collage. The artist also adds found objects like metallic cocktail umbrellas, glitter and Japanese paper she collects. These are deeply felt and personal works complex in their layering of vivid color. Wick works loosely and intuitively in the beginning of each picture, then slowly builds up the surface with multiple layers of paint and collage. “Floraborealis” is Wick’s second show at Berkshire Botanical Garden, following her 2019 exhibition, “The Shape of Color.”
Gallery hours for “Floraborealis” are seven days a week, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
