MARBLEHEAD – “The Right-Size Flower Garden: Exceptional Plants and Design Solutions for Aging and Time-Pressed Gardeners” To be presented by Award-Winning Garden Designer, Author and Lecturer Kerry Ann Mendez. Tuesday, April 5th, 7:00 pm, at Abbot Public Library /Light refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. The program is a collaboration of the Cottage Garden Club and the Abbot Public Library.
All gardeners and wanna-be-gardeners are invited to attend this motivating and inspiring lecture. Garden design expert Kerry Ann Mendez, whose most recent book is The Right-Size Garden: Simplify Your Outdoor Space with Smart Design Solutions and Plant Choices, will provide easy-to-follow right-sizing strategies, recommended no-fuss plant material, sustainable practices, and design tips for stunning year-round gardens that will be as close to ‘autopilot’ as you can get!
Kerry Ann Mendez is dedicated to teaching the art of low-maintenance perennial gardening and landscaping. As a garden designer, author and lecturer, she focuses on time-saving gardening techniques, workhorse plants and sustainable practices. She has been featured on HGTV and in numerous magazines, including Horticulture, Fine Gardening, Garden Gate and Better Homes & Gardens. Also a speaker in high demand, Kerry Ann has spoken at many prestigious sites and Master Gardeners conferences, including U. S. Botanic Gardens; the Philadelphia Flower Show; Purdue Extension Office; and International Master Gardeners Conference, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
In October 2014, Kerry Ann was awarded the Gold Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, an honorary medal presented to those who have made significant contributions to the enjoyment and appreciation of plants and the environment. She has published three popular gardening books, her most recent, The Right-Size Garden: Simplify Your Outdoor Space with Smart Design Solutions and Plant Choices, was released in February 2015. She is the Regional Director of The Garden Writers Association of America.
For more about Kerry Ann and her business, “Perennially Yours,” please visit www.pyours.com.
The Abbot Public Library is located at 235 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA 01945. For additional information, please call 781-631-1481 or visit www.abbotlibrary.org.
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Additional News From Abbot Public Library
Virginia A. Carten Gallery
“Cut, Torn, Painted, and Pasted Papers”: Collages by Suzanne H. Ulrich
Saturday, April 2nd through Wednesday, April 27th
Public Reception: Sunday, April 3rd, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Artist’s Statement: “I have enjoyed making art most of my life and have had the good fortune to maintain a studio outside the home for many of those years. Indulging in the romance of the studio, the canvas, the paper, the paints, brushes and all the other things I needed to make this art. To be able to sit and meditate and work on things in progress, to live with them, look at them, change, remake, discard and begin again until something emerges and is finished.
I have chosen the pieces in this exhibition from many different years to give an overview, a retrospective of my collage-making. I had been affiliated with two prominent galleries in Manhattan for a dozen years and also one in upstate NY. Ivan Karp, being one of those and Kathryn Markel and John Davis. All very generous and good to me. I am still represented by Barbara Krakow in Boston as well as several other private dealers. I thought I could die happy to have one exhibition in NYC in my lifetime. I had many. You just never know. But just showing up in the studio most mornings and seeing where the work takes you is the best part. You get to make it all for yourself, to please only yourself.
I hope you all enjoy this exhibit. I have thought about it and planned which pieces to show for almost a year now. A few from my own collection and I have borrowed back several others.
These collage works of cut, torn, painted and pasted papers have a small, intimate scale. The rectangle both dominates and gives structure to the work with attention to the surface detail and layering. With a compositional ordering, avoiding any illusionistic references, each piece becomes a composed self-contained presence.
“Playing with basic shapes and colors, the possibilities are endless…”
