Garden art and visual arts go hand in hand - Danish text
It's not the size that does it. Even in a small city garden, like the one owned by multi-artist Nina Ferlov in the heart of old Middelfart, there is plenty to tell about. It is about the eyes that see, and seen through Nina Ferlov's eyes, the senses are opened to the near.
Nina Ferlov is often called the master of watercolor. Why understand with this beautiful book in hand, a declaration of love for the plants in the artist's own garden and a tribute to the change of seasons.
With her rare sense of detail and color composition, Nina Ferlov has portrayed the plants in her small city garden one by one through a calendar year. She has a personal relationship with all of them and knows how they found their way to Søndergade 8. The porcelain flower, for example, which she did not really like ... "but when I got a porcelain flower from a friend, it had to fit in "My attitude changed when it started to bloom and I felt like painting it," she says in the book.
Nina Ferlov is also a fabric printer, textile designer and visual artist.
Hardcover, 192 pages.
Measures: 26x18 cm.