Caroline Holmes
14 September 2022
Synopsis
Starting with a Siennese view of Scotland’s King James I, this talk explores the history of landscapes and gardens from the 15th to the 21st centuries, and their settings for follies, with themes such as Allegory and Fantasy, Classicism and Grandeur, Romanticism and Innovation, and Modernism and Individuality. According to Erasmus, Folly is the seasoning of life with pleasure – or is it to be swayed by the power of passion? Both views are found in garden designs and plantings containing cryptic references to vice and virtue, extravagance and ego, love and jealousy.
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Caroline Holmes is an award-winning author, broadcaster and garden design consultant, whose own garden has featured in magazines and on television. She lectures widely, and is a tutor and course director for Cambridge University. Caroline’s varied publications include the best-selling Monet at Giverny and her latest book on the English garden, Where the Wildness Pleases.