Lecture – “Arts & Crafts Gardens-Gardens of a Golden Afternoon”, Simon Gulliver

For the second of our series of free Zoom lectures, WGT member Simon Gulliver has kindly agreed to give a talk on Arts & Crafts Gardens. Simon is a Gardens Advisor for the National Trust and has previously worked at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. He has spoken on Ernest ‘Chinese’ Wilson at one of our previous series of talks.

His talk is entitled “Arts & Crafts Gardens-Gardens of a Golden Afternoon” and looks at how the Arts and Crafts movement inspired architects and the gifted amateur owners of some of our most beautiful houses to create masterpieces of garden design; combining quality of materials, craftsmanship and artistry. Embedded in it is a case study on the original inception for the landscape around Stoneywell and Ernest Gimson’s and the Barnsley Brothers’ homes in the Cotswolds. The talk debates what constitutes an Arts & Crafts Garden: is it the values that led to its creation that makes it Arts &Crafts, or merely a style consisting of a collection of typical garden design elements found in gardens of that period?

This lecture will be free to members. Guests are welcome and can obtain the link from Paul Baker.

Image courtesy of the National Trust.