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Bay Area Landscape Designers: Meet the Next Generation | Architectural Digest

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Armed with a quiver of prestigious degrees, Leslie Bennett started her career in the fields of environmental justice, land-use and cultural-house legislation, and preservation. Then she determined it was time to get her fingers dirty. “I felt useless staying a tremendous-wonky desk worker,” Bennett recalls. “I needed to reconnect to the land.” So she established off on a journey into the entire world of organic and natural farming, apprenticing at functions on both sides of the Atlantic. Following returning to her indigenous Northern California, Bennett launched her yard enterprise in Oakland in 2010 with a mission to provide the wonders of eco-friendly place to city dwellers of various backgrounds. The firm’s fairness pricing structure supplies modest subsidies for consumers with historically restricted accessibility to the sort of personal urban oases that are the inventory-in-trade of most landscape layout functions. “We see gardens as spaces of prospect and uplift, areas wherever individuals can tap into their ancestral cultures,” claims Bennett, who has translated that philosophy into initiatives across the Bay Location, like Black Sanctuary Gardens—an arts initiative concentrated on creating pure refuges in collaboration with Black ladies and Black communities in and around Oakland. In Bennett’s words and phrases, “It’s about amazing Black ladies being magnificent in their magnificent gardens.” pinehouseediblegardens.com

Daniel Nolan Design

Daniel Nolan describes his entrée into the globe of landscape style as a “focused stumble,” beginning with his artwork school times in Los Angeles, when he very first found out his green thumb. His real master class in plant identification and collection arrived for the duration of a almost decade-long tenure at Flora Grubb Gardens, the venerable San Francisco emporium for all factors horticultural. “I’m fascinated by both the artistry and the biology of the back garden,” says Nolan, who opened his namesake style apply in 2018 and has gone on to make magical landscapes for a wide vary of private residences and commercial purchasers, amongst them Kistler Vineyards in Sonoma and Napa’s Clos Pegase winery. “My style is not extremely flowery or intricate,” he claims of his technique, which balances lush, expressive plantings with clearly articulated, minimalist hardscapes. “My intention is normally to be drought tolerant,” he proceeds, affirming his abiding curiosity in the topic of his 2018 guide, Dry Gardens: Significant Design for Low H2o Gardens. “In the end, the operate is always about making spaces for meditation, repose, and pleasure.” danielnolandesign.com

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6 Brilliant Prints By A New Generation of Female Artists

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We know the power art has in transforming a plain wall, whether as a single framed piece or within an artfully curated gallery wall, but it’s so much more than just adding personality to a living space.

When shopping for art, knowing the story of the artist or the artwork brings an intimacy and value that goes beyond the visual interest. So if you’re looking for some new prints to grace your walls, look no further because Rockett St George have just launched some very special prints by talented young female artists from all over the UK.

Rockett St George co-founders, Jane and Lucy, treasure hunt across the world in search of unique, glamorous and eclectic home furnishings to inspire others to create a magical and extraordinary home – and now six unique pieces of art sit amongst their cleverly curated collections.

As part of a collaboration with The Prince’s Trust’s #ChangeAGirlsLife campaign for International Women’s Day, a competition tasked talented young female artists to create a piece of artwork that captures the spirit of what women supporting women means to them.

Six worthy winners were chosen and now each artwork has been created into professional art prints, available to buy online at Rockett St George and at the retailer’s concession in Liberty London, with 25 per cent from every sale donated to The Prince’s Trust.

The prints will be sold for a year until International Women’s Day 2023 and the funds raised will help to support more young women and change their lives for the better, whilst also raising the profile and awareness of six talented young female artists. So who are they? Natasha Muluswela, Leyla Sitki, Sylvia Tirado, Lucy J Turner, Sophie Chittock and Meig Sutherland. Find out more about these talented artists, the story behind their art, and how you can style their art in your home.

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1. Challenge The Conventions by Natasha Muluswela

Natasha Muluswela, 26, is a Zimbabwean-born artist living in the UK. With a focus on body positivity in the face of society’s unrealistic beauty standards, Natasha creates incredible pieces of art that celebrate the diversity of the female body.

About the artwork:

Challenge The Conventions questions and confronts what society deems to be beautiful by exploring inspirations that range from vitiligo to stretch marks and ageism. Natasha concentrates on how these unique markings made by nature are instead a true and beautiful part of human existence.

Challenge The Conventions

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How to style it in your home:

Offering an inspirational message and a definite talking point, dsplay this piece in a high traffic area – it’s perfect in a hallway and it would suit a gallery wall too. It would also make an extraordinary gift so that this inspirational message is passed on.

Size: A2 / Available Framed (£125) or Unframed (£60)

2. Just A Part Of Me by Leyla Sitki

Leyla, 24, has recently resurrected her love for painting as a way to discover a new sense of self and to disconnect from life’s daily stresses. With every brushstroke, negative and discouraging thoughts are diminished. Leyla focuses on self-portrait nudes in beautiful colour palettes.

About the artwork:

Just A Part Of Me reclaims how we view ourselves and celebrates the power of self love and confidence.

Just A Part Of Me

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How to style it in your home:

Perfect as part of a galley wall, use the colours in this piece to curate an eclectic wall display.

Size: A2 / Available Framed (£125) or Unframed (£60)

3. Liberation By Sylvia Tirado

Latin-American Sylvia Tirado is a 16-year-old artist living in London. She uses a variety of media in her works with the central focus on womanhood and the female experience. As an adolescent, she incorporates her own experiences and current issues she believes in within her art, and she is a firm believer that women supporting women can lead to beautiful empowerment.

About the artwork:

Liberation raises awareness of domestic abuse and gives homage to the victims and survivors. After reading many survivor stories, Sylvia was incredibly inspired to see how strong women can be. Liberation reveals two sombre faces through etching and printing techniques, contrasted with flowers in the centre to symbolise regrowth, freedom and hope.

Liberation

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How to style it in your home:

This monochrome print would fit perfectly on its own in the hallway, home office or in an alcove in the living room.

Size: A2 / Available Framed (£125) or Unframed (£60)

4. Collective Joy by Lucy J Turner

Lucy, 29, is a digital illustrator based in Bristol. Lucy makes use of bold, bright and colourful designs within her work, and is passionate about using art as a way to heal from trauma. At the age of 23, Lucy was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and began to start art therapy sessions. This experience has now developed into a career for the talented artist, who introduces a unique and captivating sense of joy through her artwork.

About the artwork:

Lucy takes inspiration from black bodies, and in particular, Black women and celebrates them as the focus of her digital work. Because Black women are often unfairly left out of the narrative, Lucy’s aim within her work is to highlight how simultaneously powerful, vulnerable and beautiful Black women are. Lucy’s artwork reveals three beautiful women standing together to perfectly capture the collective joy of women supporting women.

Collective Joy

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How to style it in your home:

This joyful, uplifting print will command a wall on its own. It’s perfect in a bedroom or home office, or use it as the focal print on a gallery wall.

Size: A2 / Available Framed (£125) or Unframed (£60)

5. We Rise by Sophie Chittock

Sophie, 26, found that throughout her life, people told her that being creative is a hobby, not a profession. Continually met by negative reactions to her dream to be an artist, Sophie was made to feel that art was not a viable career option and believes that the traditional idea of work culture makes it challenging for women to try to build their lives and careers. But Sophie’s experience has also taught her the power of women supporting women, and in 2022, she is dedicating her time to become a full-time artist.

About the artwork:

Sophie’s painting is inspired by a memory of her and her friends travelling to the beach to see the sun rise from the calm ocean every year. This tradition provided an opportunity to watch the sun come up together whilst musing about life, goals, falling in love, and endless exciting possibilities. We Rise celebrates the power of finding these moments with the women you love, rising together with the sun, and always supporting each other.

We Rise

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How to style it in your home:

This empowering piece of art is perfect for a quiet, reflective area, whether it graces the wall of an office or a reading nook in your home.

Size: A2 / Available Framed (£125) or Unframed (£60)

6. Trust By Meig Sutherland

Meig Sutherland, 24, is a Fine Art graduate based in Glasgow. Exploring art through both traditional and non-traditional methods, Meig has developed her passion of drawing and painting the human form to create her own unique style. By connecting figures together, she combines a series of poses in her work to capture the varying forms that the body has when in motion.

About the artwork:

Trust explores the idea of leaning on someone and women relying on one another. It looks to capture the unique communication and understanding women have with one another, illustrating through abstract female forms how women support and hold each other up in life.

Trust

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How to style it in your home:

This bold print would work well as part of a gallery wall, especially along the staircase.

Size: A2 / Available Framed (£125) or Unframed (£60).

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New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’

They are a spiky, ambitious lot. We encounter the poet John Ashbery, to whom Schloss complained about being called “semiabstract” by a critic. “‘Isn’t all life semi?’” he replied consolingly. And the composer Elliott Carter, who sneered of folk music’s influence on modern urbans: “We are not shepherds. We are not coming out of the hills. We are not folk.” The dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham rears up “like a furry old faun”; the gallerist Leo Castelli has a Felix Unger-ish fastidiousness.

Schloss writes of a time, incredible as it may seem now, when painters in New York had the clout of movie stars. (These days, maybe even movie stars no longer have the clout of movie stars.) The Bob De Niro she gossiped with over a temperamental kerosene stove on the street was the actor’s father. Franz Kline, another abstract expressionist, with whom she danced the tango, “had a sort of Bogart-like cool and melancholy.” Strolling downtown alongside Willem de Kooning, the Dutch painter, leader of this set, “was like walking with Clark Gable in Hollywood.”

De Kooning and his wife, Elaine, a.k.a. “Queen of the Lofts,” are among the more completely filled-out figures in a collection of mostly outlines and shadows, darting in and out of time. At Bill’s studio, Schloss, who’d escaped Nazi Germany studying languages abroad as a teenager, first beheld the takeover of former industrial spaces that transformed real estate as well as art. So powerful was the romance of New York lofts, surpassing the Parisian garrets before them, that prefabricated luxury versions are now an industry standard. They were “stages for work and for a whole new free way of living,” Schloss writes, describing her crowd’s appropriation of cable spools for coffee tables as if they were The Borrowers, a perpetual ascension of creaky stairs, parlor games absent an actual parlor and meals taken at the Automat.

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All five senses are shaken awake by “The Loft Generation,” which might as well be subtitled A Study of Synesthesia, punctuated by “cream-colored screams,” a hotly debated phrase the poet Frank O’Hara used to describe Cy Twombly’s canvases in ARTnews. Schloss got a reviewing gig there — she compares the work to embroidery or knitting — to smoothe Jacob’s admittance to a nursery school “only for the children of working mothers”; painting apparently didn’t qualify. There is sight, of course, with color insets of Schloss’s bright and optimistic daubings alongside work by her more dour-seeming contemporaries. There is sound, in her recounting of the unholy clamor of the Chelsea neighborhood where she and Burckhardt shacked up: the rattling of iron window shutters, mating cats, the fire and burglar alarms and “the intermittent swish of cars down Sixth Avenue, like long sighs.” (Next time you misplace the AirPods Pro, think of John Cage teaching Schloss to appreciate ambient noise as part of life’s symphony.)