FoDL: THE BRITISH GARDEN IN ART - MONDAY FEBRUARY 16: 6.45 for 7.15pm

THE BRITISH GARDEN IN ART

MONDAY FEBRUARY 16

Christopher Woodward, Director of Lambeth's newly-refurbished Garden Museum, will trace the story of gardening in Britain through artefacts, manuscripts, and works of art from the museum's unique collections. The talk will begin in the Elizabethan period, when tattered old plans give us our first elusive glimpses of lost gardens. In the 18th century picturesque painters not only changed how we see the British landscape, but designed gardens to look like their pictures. We look at Victorian and Edwardian gardens through popular images: postcards, printed books, then the phenomenon of Country Life. For the 20th century the focus is on gardens created by artists, from Cedric Morris and John Nash to Ian Hamilton Finlay and Derek Jarman. Finally, there are artefacts which have come to symbolise great designers - from William Robinson's cloak to Gertrude Jekyll's muddy old boots.

DURNING LIBRARY

167 Kennington Lane (020 7926 8682)

6.45 for 7.15pm

Suggested donation £2. Refreshments

Friends of the Durning Library