Slawson Creations
Garden Gallery
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Garden Gallery
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David Slawson's passion is to create landscape gardens that evoke the beauty of the natural world, inspired by the site and surrounding landscape, the client's wishes for the garden, and locally available materials. Whether the space is small or large, the garden is crafted to resonate with our human senses so we feel at one with the scene just as we do when viewing a well composed landscape painting. This sense of intimacy is created through a variety of techniques, the most basic of which is to subdivide larger areas into smaller ones. Can you guess which of the following gardens are public and which are residential? While public gardens tend to be larger, when working with such spaces, the landscape artist must be as attentive to detail and creating a sense of intimacy as in a small residential garden viewed from a living room. In the following photographs of my work, I have mixed public and residential projects. Try imagining which public garden designs might be used as well in a residential garden space.
Upper falls, Garden of the Pine Wind, Garvan Woodland Gardens, Hot Springs, Arkansas Photo by Sylvia M. Banks “I know I can come here and it’s going to be in perfect proportion and if I’m feeling off or I’m feeling a little down, this kind of beauty and this kind of balance has a real effect on the psyche and on the body. I think it’s something we all crave at some level, and this is a very predictable place to come to get that—to experience it. When you’re stimulated by something this balanced and beautiful, it has an effect on your entire being. It elevates it, no question.” -- visitor to the Garden of Quiet Listening, Carleton College, from DVD, “In Full Circle: The Japanese Garden as a Work of Art in Progress” |
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