Oct 29, 2017
A soft, modern take on the traditional parterre in the Walled Garden at Broughton Grange. Designed by Tom Stuart-Smith. Small group garden tours with carexTours: http://www.carexdesign.com/tours/
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A soft, modern take on the traditional parterre in the Walled Garden at Broughton Grange. Designed by Tom Stuart-Smith. Small group garden tours with carexTours: http://www.carexdesign.com/tours/
The Walled Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith at Broughton Grange. Explore the most wonderful gardens being designed today with carexTours: http://www.carexdesign.com/tours/
Tom Stuart-Smith.
Steel gate - Tom stuart smith and Jamie Fobert
The Garden Project
The stillness, the twisting path, drooping fern, contrast between solid and broken surfaces, a organic oasis. I have been editing a short film to be displayed at The Garden Museum in London town in May. The delectable Ciaran O'Brien spent last summer travelling the country and collecting beautiful footage of the gardens designed by Tom Stuart Smith. If you haven't heard of him there is a link at the bottom of this scrawl. Let me tell you in brief though that he is one of the most talented, gently gifted, inspired architects of space I have ever come across. The fact that his tools are plants, fern, small streams and grassy knolls makes him even more outstanding. I spent about 4 hours editing footage of this one particular garden he has done in Islington, London. The London streets lining the back of the garden walls, cars, and bicycles but inside, in that small rectangle of garden Tom had created something truly peaceful, remedial and beautiful. There are no flowers, no bright colours, just greens, many different greens, textures and flickering light. I have never had such a peaceful edit.
Tom has a philosophy behind his projects, he is considered and particular and the detail he strives for is exceptional.
We look to forge connections between place and people. We bring an analytical design approach together with a detailed understanding of the nature of a place, and the wishes of our clients.
We follow an ethic of sustainability and seek to increase the ecological diversity and richness of any landscape in which we work. We use local materials wherever we can and select plants fitted to their surroundings, which will endure over time.
-Tom Stuart Smith
I think that this project came along for me at just the right time in the year. I am hurtling towards the end of my degree, eager to tumble out the other side but conscious of the fact that my student days are numbered. As I am doing a media degree there are so many hundreds of directions I could peal off in when I scramble towards a career. This can be disorientating yet more than this is the concern that I will have to create mass media fodder designed not to inspire the viewer/listener but to gently fatten their minds with pap. I have occasionally become disheartened, particularly at this point in the course as we are all tired, we are all a little worried about the future and what it holds. Editing this garden project, seeing how Tom works and his dogged desire for things to be just right have given me an extra boost. Work with your surroundings but just make it better, long term considered investment into your landscape, encouraging community and reveling in variety of texture. I think much of Tom's philosophy can be applied to broadcast. That's a nice feeling.
www.tomstuartsmith.co.uk
www.museumgardenhistory.org
- Jessie