This introductory Garden History day course with Laura Mayer provides an overview of the eighteenth-century landscape garden, one of Britain’s greatest cultural exports. By focusing on the work of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and his Regency successor, Humphry Repton, the course charts the rise and fall of the idealised English parkscape.
Competing ideas in garden design were then, as they are today, shaped by changes in prevailing fashion, economic pressures and even political discourse. We shall therefore consider how a revolutionary shift in landscaping style – driven by Brown and his contemporaries – overthrew the formal, geometric gardens of centuries past, in favour of the natural, and eventually the wild.
The course includes a delicious 2-course lunch and refreshments throughout.
Tickets: https://www.neighbourhoodlearning.com/events/ideal-english-parkscape
