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It all looks as if the owner has decided to leave the grass to grow higgledy-piggledy, and the plants to develop as they wish... Then, at the bottom of the garden, you see a building that could be a museum, and a large wall looms up hung with paintings, and an entrance indicating "visit continues this way"...

The paintings are vibrant and carefully composed, in stark contrast with the first part of the garden. Is this the secret garden of a painting collector? Or a museum in which nature has gained the upper hand?

But suddenly you get the feeling this isn't your average exhibition of paintings. For some subjects disappear from one frame only to reappear in another. In fact, these aren't paintings hanging on the wall at all, but large, slightly tilted mirrors... And the contents of these mirror-paintings are a reflection of the garden and its clumps of plants - clumps which you didn't spot directly, for they are hidden by a meadow of grass in the foreground.

designer

Solène ORTOLI, visual artist
FRANCE
 
 
"I was trained as a scenographer at the National Higher School of Decorative Arts in Paris, going on to develop as a visual artist in a variety of contexts. I like having to adapt my work to radically different spaces, each with its own particular constraints and public – whether theatre stage, film studio, contemporary art exhibition d'art or garden".

THE GARDEN'S PLANTS

Achillea millefolium ‘Summer pastels’ 
Achillea millefolium ‘White Queen’
Agave americana ‘Calamagrostis’
Aquilegia x crimson star
Aquilegia x krystall 
Artemisia abrotanum 
Artemisia arborescens ‘Powis Castle’
Carex oshimensis ‘Greenwell’
Cineraire maritime ‘Silver Dust’
Cirsium  rivulare ‘Atropurpureum’
Dahlia bishop of Llandaff  
Delphinium belladonna ‘Clivedon Beauty’
Echeveria secunda ‘Glauca’
Echinops ritro ‘Vetch Blue’
Erigeron speciosa
Eryngium planum ‘Jade Frost’
Foeniculum vulgare ‘Bronza Form’
Iris germanica ‘Sultan Palace’
Lupinus polyphyllus x ‘Mon Château’
Melianthus major
Oenothera fruticosa ‘Young’
Ophiopogon nigrescens
Panicum virgatum ‘Heiliger Hain’
Phyllostachys bissetii
Sambuscus nigra ‘Black Lace’
Sedum spectabile ‘Herbsfreude’
Sedum spectabile ‘Iceberg’ 
Sedum spurium ‘Schorbuser blut’
Sedum telephium ‘Purple Emperor’ 
Wangenheimia lima ‘Vulcan’

GARDEN CREATED WITH SUPPORT FROM

Bambous de France 'Le jardin des Collines'

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