{"product_id":"greatest-garden-the-paintings-of-david-more-paperback","title":"Greatest Garden: The Paintings of David More - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary-Beth LaViolette\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLorna Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eDavid More\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid More is one of western Canada's exceptional painters. Based in the rural hamlet of Benalto, near Red Deer Alberta, he is part of a generation of landscape artists who emerged in the 1970s to make beauty out of the ordinary and challenge the expected with bold acts of creation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, More has returned to the garden as a deeply functional yet ritualistic space of human endeavour. The garden is a place of shelter and sanctuary, of colour and fragrance, of order and wilderness. The garden is a private space, carefully tended and planted, observed en plein air or through the living-room window. The garden is a public space, a park where people gather to let their natures blossom. The garden is the world, the nature that sustains and surround us, the environment we all live within, and all have a responsibility to cultivate and tend.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreatest Garden\u003c\/em\u003e is a celebration of David More's engagement with the garden as a multifaceted subject. Featuring over fifty original artworks, this book encompasses a career spent in conversation with gardens in their many and varied forms. With lively brushwork, a keen sense of colour, and an aptitude for expressive drawing and varied composition, More has found the garden in expected and unexpected places. In \u003cem\u003eGreatest Garden\u003c\/em\u003e you are welcomed to walk its sunlit paths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary-Beth Laviolette\u003c\/strong\u003e is an independent curator and writer with a visual art practice spanning forty years. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eAn Alberta Art Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Delicate Art: Artists, Wildflowers, and Native Plants of the West\u003c\/em\u003e. She has curated exhibitions for the Art Gallery of Alberta, Calgary's Glenbow Museum, the Whyte Museum, and more. Mary-Beth is the recipient of many awards, including the Alberta Centennial Medal and Artist in the Spotlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 10.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52439796875571,"sku":"9781773852249","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/M09DS1kvV1RSbEtMU2wzbWhUUFExUT09.webp?v=1758858873","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/greatest-garden-the-paintings-of-david-more-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}