The Art of the Japanese Garden
Presented by Marie Conte-Helm
This lecture introduces some of Japan’s most famous gardens and provides a context for understanding the principles of Japanese garden design as it has evolved through the ages. The Japanese love of nature and the changing seasons has manifested itself in paintings and in the intimate and grand-scale gardens surrounding aristocratic palaces and Buddhist temples, as well as Zen-inspired dry landscape gardens with strikingly symbolic content. The lecture also draws upon wider examples to illustrate the distinctive qualities that the Japanese have brought to garden design, an approach successfully adapted to modern domestic settings and to Japanese gardens abroad.
Dates and Locations
Monday 7 September 2026 Mudgee (NSW)
Wednesday 9 September 2026 Orange (NSW)
Tuesday 15 September 2026 Scone (NSW)
Thursday 17 September 2026 Armidale (NSW)
Monday 28 September 2026 Coffs Coast (NSW)
Tuesday 29 September 2026 Bowral (NSW)
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