Garden Painting and Films
Sheds and Green Bin, Cow Mead Allotment, Oxford, 28 x 40 cm
Shed, Cow Mead Allotment, Oxford, 36 x 45 cm
Terracotta Pots with Ceres and Diana, Villa La Pietra, 54 x 74.5 cm
Kitchen Garden with Lemon Trees, Villa La Pietra, 45 x 58 cm
The Present Order II, Little Sparta, 54 x 69 cm
Apollo and Daphne, Little Sparta, 65.5 x 55.5 cm
Nuclear Sail II, Little Sparta, 53 x 64.5 cm
In the narrow confines of the Abingdon garden Boulton brings together her own impressive knowledge of plants with memories of the other gardens she has studied in her paintings, a homage to the skills and inspirations of their creators. In her garden paintings the evocations of light, weather, vistas carefully planned and fortuitous are achieved with a sense of sponteneity which only a highly skilled use of watercolour, a perceptive eye and determined patience can produce.
Jessie Sheeler, Critical Essay, March 2012
Foreground/Background: A Day in Janet Boulton’s Garden: Late September 2014 | A film by Zuleika Kingdon (Distant Object Productions) 2015
Photographer Andrew Lawson in artist Janet Boulton’s Garden at Spring Road, 5 June 2018 | A film by Thomas Piper (Five Seasons Media) 2020
As It Is Now: Janet Boulton’s Garden – Late October 2021 | Absorb Films 2022
Garden Works | www.hk01.com | 2016
In Conversation: Janet Boulton and Nicholas Dakin-Elliot (Head Gardener) | Villa La Pietra NYU Florence, October 12, 2016
In Conversation: Janet Boulton and Nicholas Dakin-Elliot (Head Gardener) | Villa La Pietra NYU Florence, September 29, 2015