Introducing Japan’s most famous gardens, their context and the principles of Japanese garden design as it evolved.
The Japanese love of nature and the changing seasons is shown in their paintings and in the intimate and grand-scale gardens surrounding aristocratic palaces and Buddhist temples as well as Zen-inspired dry landscape gardens with their symbolic content. Nature
and artifice are combined to capture the essence of the landscape.
Historical, religious and philosophical influences have informed the Japanese approach to
the visual arts. This lecture will draw upon wider examples to illustrate the distinctive qualities that the Japanese have brought to garden design, an approach that has evolved and been successfully adapted to modern domestic settings and to Japanese gardens globally.
How to book this event:
Guest tickets are available from Square Chapel Box Office at £11.50 (including £1.50 booking fee)
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Professor Marie Conte-Helm
Professor Marie Conte-Helm is a long-established Arts Society Lecturer with a BA in History of Art and an MA in Asian Art and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She was Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation from 1999-2011 and has held senior academic posts at various UK universities. She has most recently served as Executive Director of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group, and as a member of the Board of Governors of the University for the Creative Arts. She is widely published and has lectured throughout the UK and abroad. She is also an experienced cruise speaker and a Resident Historian with Viking Ocean Cruises, lecturing on many aspects of Asian Art and East-West Encounters. She was awarded an OBE in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to UK-Japan educational and cultural relations and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette by the Government of Japan in 2019.
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