Timothy Walker - Science & Art Of Colour in English Garden Design

Timothy Walker - The Subtle Science & Exact Art Of Colour in English Garden Design Why Gardening Can Rank As A Fine Art

2pm Saturday 12th July 2025

St Peters Baptist Church, Eden Close, Worcester WR5 3TZ

In 1882 Gertrude Jekyll wrote a short but seminal article in The Garden in which she urged the readers to remember that in a garden we are painting a picture . As an accomplished watercolour artist, Miss Jekyll was familiar with the principles of using colours, but she felt that in gardens these principles had been greatly neglected.

Timothys talk will explore how to apply these principles when designing a border but also examine the ways in which a border is different from a painting. Timothy will go further and demonstrate how the work of artists including Turner, Monet, Rothko and Jackson Pollack evolved in parallel with ideas concerning what a garden or border should look like.

Lecturer, botanist, gardener and author, Timothy Walker is the former Horti Praefectus and Director of Oxford Botanic Garden and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London.

Tickets are 5 for visitors which includes complimentary tea / coffee.

Plant Sales Prize Draw Homemade cakes

Lecture starts at 2pm