Steve Bradshaw

GARDENER / PHOTOGRAPHER

Open at:
30 Ashcroft Gardens
PE1 5LP
10

Weekend 2 12 noon-5pm
Weekend 3 12 noon-5pm

A gardener for less than ten years, I love the idea of an exotic garden: bananas, cannas, palms; pushing the boundaries of gardening and design. Equally as important as each plant, texture, form, water, reflection and colour play important roles in the interplay between specimens.

I’ve tried to create different areas for different moods: one has a sense of the jungle about it, each plant jostling with another for space, creating bustle and excitement; another is less dense in its design, creating tranquillity – a contemplative space.

Most certainly NOT municipal planting, my garden is post-modern; dynamic. The plants take centre stage; design, though important and sympathetic, is secondary. The living works of art in this garden, I wish the plants to make the statement and carry the ‘show’.

As a photographer the same rules apply: form, texture, subject and colour are the important elements of my subjects.

The garden, as artist’s studio, is an ever-changing palette of colour, and sculpture of both form and texture with one important difference – nature claims some control!