Visit the Brine Garden with ArtEast 2011

The Brine Garden is celebrating its 21^st anniversary with an exhibit of photographs and watercolors. ArtEast Open Studio Tour visitors are welcome to enjoy the exhibit and stroll through the 6-acre garden.

With his original digital Canon Rebel, landscape designer Duncan Brine makes images that share the design principles of his garden, “how it works.”

The Brine Garden Entry gate, Pawling, NY © gardenlarge.com

Duncan’s wife, Julia Brine, his partner in their landscape design firm, Horticultural Design, Inc., depicts botanical and natural subjects in watercolor and pencil.

Native Euonymus atropurpureus © Julia Brine

In the New York Times, Anne Raver wrote, “Duncan and Julia Brine’s six-acre garden, a dreamlike landscape…takes its cues from the old shade trees and fence posts remaining from the farm that was once here…Mr. Brine shapes a landscape as a filmmaker would a story, conceiving it as an unfolding narrative…only discovered by moving through space.”

The mature plantings of the Brine Garden may beg the question of what was planted or here before. Hudson Valley magazine called it “a purposeful confusion.”

Marilyn Bethany, formerly of New York magazine, wrote about the Brine Garden in www.ruralintelligence.com. “All good gardens are instructive. This one? It will blow your mind.

Duncan Brine’s photographs and article about “a naturalistic garden” has appeared in the American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener magazine.

Callcarpa dichotoma "Early Amethyst" © gardenlarge.com

The Brine Garden is part of the Garden Conservancy Open Days program and is also open, by arrangement, to garden clubs and other groups. Please go to gardenlarge for more about the Brine Garden and Horticultural Design, Inc.

Duncan Brine, Princeton ‘79, pursued theater and film interests before beginning his work as the principal landscape designer for Horticultural Design, Inc. He’s a landscape design instructor at the New York Botanical Garden.

Julia Brine graduated Harvard in 1977 and then pursued an MFA. She studied at the New York Botanical Garden’s Botanical Illustration program and was recently commissioned to depict the life of Liriodendron tulipifera for Curtis Instruments.

Images Courtesy of Gallery on the Green

Gallery on the Green represents contemporary artists whose works range from representational to abstract. From painting to drawing, from sculpture to mixed media, it exhibits innovative artists who share a high standard of excellence and artistic judgment and is taking the lead in helping Eastern Dutchess County establish a major presence in the Tri-State arts scene.

The Gallery on the Green is located at 7 Arch Street in Pawling, 845-855-5642. Hours are Wednesday through Saturdays from noon to 5pm and always by appointment. To arrange an appointment contact Michelle Farnum-Morales at 845-855-5642. For more information visit us at www.gotgpawling.com.