THE ART OF LANDSCAPE: THE PICTURESQUE, THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE SUBLIME
IMAGINING AND INTERPRETING LANDSCAPE, FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT,
SOLD OUT March 20 Julian Smith Executive Director, Willowbank
Former Chief Architect, National Historic Sites Program, Parks Canada
“Willowbank and the Picturesque Tradition”
also: Live chamber music of the early 19th Century
April 3 Wendy Shearer Guelph
Conservator of historic landscapes, Willowbank faculty associate in landscape
“The conservation of historic landscapes in Ontario”
SOLD OUT April 17 Jennifer Dickson Ottawa
Order of Canada artist and landscape historian, represented in collections worldwide
“An artist’s interpretation of the Picturesque tradition”
May 1 Linda Dicaire National Capital Commission
Chief Federal Design Approvals, Heritage and Archaeology, National Capital Commission, and former Chief landscape architect, National Historic Sites program.
“Historic Landscapes in Canada and jewels of the Picturesque in our Capital"
SOLD OUT 15 Noah Richler Toronto
Author of This is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada”
“A writer’s interpretation of landscape”
SOLD OUT 29 Mark Laird Harvard University
Author of The Flowering of the Landscape Garden, consultant to the U,K National Trust
“Horticultural and the Picturesque tradition”
June 12 Joan Coutu University of Waterloo
Professor of Art History, author of Monuments in the 18th Century British Empire.
“Niagara Parks as a 20th Century reinterpretation of Canadian landscape”
SOLD OUT Sunday August 22, 12 pm to 3 pm
Eda Holmes and cast Shaw Festival Niagara-on-the-Lake
This fascinating conclusion to our series on landscape takes us into the extraordinary imagination of Tom Stoppard, and his use of the Picturesque landscape tradition as a metaphor for larger questions of reason and passion, order and chaos, continuity and surprise. Of particular significance to those who heard speaker Mark Laird talk about his early work on restoring the landscape of Painshill in England, beginning in the 1980s - it was Tom Stoppard's visit to this work in progress, in the early 1990s, that had a direct bearing on his inspiration for this play. All the elements - the great picturesque gardens, the lake, the hermitage, the grotto - appear within the texture of this play. So we perhaps owe a debt to Mark for providing Tom with the canvas for his work. Eda Holmes will direct this reading by members of the Shaw Festival community.
Tickets: $20 per lecture for Friends of Willowbank
$25 per lecture for the general public
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