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A Morning with Sue & Tom Stuart-Smith

Members $25, Non-Members $35

October 1, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:15 pm

Join us on the first Saturday in October to be enlightened by noted British garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith and his wife Sue Stuart Smith author of The Well Gardened Mind. Sue and Tom will each be giving a webinar lecture followed by a joint Q&A.

This recording will be sent within 48 hours and will be available for viewing by the registrant for two weeks.

 

The Well Gardened Mind
Sue Stuart-Smith
Lecture Description
The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. But when we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life in nature through which destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal. Drawing on my grandfather’s return from the First World War, Sigmund Freud’s obsession with flowers and interviews with people from gardening projects in prisons, hospitals and in the community, I look at how gardening can answer to deep existential needs and discuss findings from recent research showing that connecting to nature alleviates symptoms of anxiety, stress and depression.

 

 

 

Drawn from the Land; Finding the Feel of a Place
Tom Stuart-Smith

Lecture Description
When I begin work on the design of a garden I start with atmosphere. What is the character of the place? How should it make you feel? What is the essence of its character and how can I make this stronger, fuller, and deeper and how does this relate to the ecology of the place and the people living and working there? I will talk about a range of projects from small gardens to grand estates to illustrate this experiential approach to design.

 

 

 

Speaker Biographies

Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist who graduated in English literature at Cambridge University before going on to train as a doctor.  She worked in the National Health Service for many years, becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She currently teaches at The Tavistock Clinic in London and is deputy director of DocHealth, a not-for-profit service helping doctors suffering from stress and burnout. She is married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the celebrated garden designer, and, over thirty years together, they have created the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire.  Her book, The Well Gardened Mind, was published in 2020 and became a Sunday Times bestseller and has since been translated into fifteen languages.

Tom Stuart-Smith is a landscape architect whose work combines naturalism with modernity and built forms with romantic planting. He read Zoology at the University of Cambridge before completing a postgraduate degree in Landscape Design. Tom has since designed gardens, parks and landscapes throughout the world.

Recent projects in the public domain include several projects at Chatsworth, a new public garden at the Hepworth Wakefield, and the masterplan for RHS Garden Bridgewater, which is one of the largest new garden projects in Europe. 2021 saw the completion of a new Islamic garden, Jellicoe Gardens in Kings Cross, commissioned by the Aga Khan Development Network and Argent, and 2022 will see the dramatic recasting of a garden by St Pauls Cathedral in the City of London which has a 100m² water basin at its centre, reflecting Sir Christopher Wren’s famous dome. Current projects include a new garden at Knepp that seeks to maximise biodiversity, and a castle on Loch Ness in Scotland.

Previous projects have included Her Majesty the Queen’s Jubilee Garden at Windsor Castle, Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire, the Bicentenary Glasshouse Garden at RHS Garden Wisley and the Keeper’s House Garden at the Royal Academy of Arts.

International projects include Le Jardin Secret in the heart of the medina in Marrakech, a garden located on the waterways near Kottayam in Kerala, and show gardens for the international horticulture exhibition at IGA Berlin 2017 and the international garden expo Beijing 2019.

He has also designed eight award winning gardens for the Chelsea Flower Show, all of which were presented with gold medals and three ‘Best in Show’.

Tom regularly gives talks and lectures, and continues to write occasionally for the Guardian, Financial Times and Daily Telegraph, amongst others. An exhibition on his work, the first about a living garden designer in the UK, was held at the Garden Museum in 2011.

Tom is a Vice President of the Royal Horticultural Society, a Trustee of the Garden Museum, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a Fellow of the Landscape Institute, and a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers.

In May 2021, Thames & Hudson published a critical monograph of his work, written by Tim Richardson, which features twenty-four gardens from around the world.

Throughout his career Tom has also developed his own family garden at home in Hertfordshire, which is open to visitors each summer, by appointment.

 

Details

Date:
October 1, 2022
Time:
10:00 am - 12:15 pm
Cost:
Members $25, Non-Members $35
Event Category:
Special Webinar Event

Venue

Live Webinar
United States

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Phone
206-780-8172
Email
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