10 - 12 May, Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône
Art et Jardins - a Mediterranean Gardening International event
Two days of garden visits, lectures and walks, in and around Aix-en-Provence, the city of Cézanne, with a view to exploring the connections between art and Mediterranean gardens. The welcome reception, lectures and final dinner will take place at the Hotel Aquabella. Our lecturers will be landscape architect and garden designer Laura de Beden, and the author, Louisa Jones.
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Lectureships
Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture (since 1993) and Course Director in Garden Design (since 2001) at Kingston University, School of Architecture and Landscape
Official lecturer for NADFAS (National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies)
Tutor and lecturer at the Inchbald School of Design
and at the English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden – London
2005 Guest Speaker at the International Conference in Santiago, Chile, organised by Club de Jardines de Chile on the theme: Fuentes de Inspiracion: Paisajismo & Iluminacion (Sources of Inspiration: Landscape Design & Lighting).
Laura lectures internationally.
Lectures and workshops: titles and topics
Garden Design as a form of art
Sculpture in the landscape
The influence of the arts on the making of gardens
The life-enhancing garden: an appreciation of the art of garden design
The history of gardens through the ages
Italian gardens
From painting to planting: changing times, changing modes
Planning and Planting
How to design a border
The mixed border
Imaginative planting
Transforming the common place
Designing with plants and nature: successful relationships
Truly tiny gardens
Graphic Design
Designing a garden: from concept to completion
Practical workshops on garden design and graphics
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