The Natick Garden Club, in association with the Natick Art Association showcased 15 live floral interpretations inspired by paintings, jewelry, woodwork pieces, mosaics, and more during a two-day long “Art in Bloom” event at the Morse Institute Library. The theme was “Many Stories from the Garden.”
Participating members of the Garden Club were each assigned an artwork created by a member of the Art Association, and a garden-themed book. From there, the gardeners used their imagination to tell a story in flowers. Floral arrangers explained their vision on an accompanying placard.
Arrangements featured below were created by members of the Natick Garden Club. The stunning interpretations were enough to make one forget winter ever existed.
Arrangement by Joyce Hannaford and Debby Thompson of the Natick Garden Club. Literary inspiration provided by The Magic Garden: Take a Journey through the Magical World of Nature, by Carme Lemniscates. Artistic inspiration below.
Glass necklace made of flameworked glass; argentium silver; art hollow glass beads; argentium clasp; and nylon ribbos, by Liliana Glen, Natick Art Association member.
Arrangement by Dee DeRuyck (right) and Heather Oluwole (not pictured), of the Natick Garden Club. Art: oil on canvas painting, “Beyond the Garden Gate,” by Dottie Laughlin (left) of the Natick Art Association. Literary inspiration provided by Garden Spells, by Sarah Addison Allen.More at the Morse
Featured artist, main level galleries: Ryan Black
Medium: paintings
Featured artist, Lebowitz Meeting Hall, lower level: John Sherffius
Exhibit: “Glaciers in Plane View: A Window Seat Perspective On Greenland’s Endangered Treasures”
Medium: Paintings
Art show at the Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, Natick—through May 31
“Birdhouses in Field,” by Liz GormanEVENT: “It’s a Wild Life”
DATE: through May 31
LOCATION: Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, 280 Eliot St., Natick
SHOW JUDGE: Brian Reddy
Bacon Free Library photography exhibit—through June 3
EXHIBIT: “Great Blue Herons, a Study of Patience and Grace”
ARTIST: Babsje
DATE: Through June 3
LOCATION: Bacon Free Library, 58 Eliot St., Natick
Some background: Babs passed away earlier this year. In a Dec. 2020 blog post she wrote, “Alas, my days of photographing the magnificent Great Blue Herons from the cockpit of my kayak floating on the lake have come to an end. One door has closed, but who know what other doors now open?”
Babs is greatly missed by her family and many friends.
