Rakesprogress #18
210 x 275 mm, 296 pages
Bromley, UK
Editors: Victoria Gaiger, Tom Loxley
Creative director: Victoria Gaiger
‘The art of gardens, plants and flowers’
The progressive guide to all things botany. As well as garden-adjacent things viewed through a creative lens, you’ll be met with interesting digressions that take you into the realms of art, fashion, food, architecture, animals, but always bring you closer to nature.
This time, the editors take us behind-the-scenes of florist-come-sculptor Emily Thompson’s New York Studio; to the primly pristine box hedges perching on the cliffs of the Dordogne valley, now under siege from hungry caterpillars and box-blight; and to a couple who have breathed new life into a former farm silo. Plus, uncover the gardening traditions of the Middle Ages through the Met’s ‘Unicorn Tapestries’, meet Graeme Black, who swapped high fashion for painting in the Yorkshire dales, all accompanied by floral cyanotypes and beautiful photography of billowing meadows.
On the Journal:
‘In issue nine the editors lift their gaze above the garden fence for the first time, to survey the landscape. The bleak, the isolated, the verdant, the distant, the exposed, the hidden; seemingly nothing escapes the attention of this extension of the theme. A windswept Danish bird watching sanctuary becomes a destination to admire architecture’s relationship to nature (above), as much as the birds.’ READ MORE.