Jameson garden inspires artists

AN exhibition of drawings, paintings, sculptures and other work from artists around the globe who were inspired by the gardens and plants at the Jameson whiskey family garden in Tourin, Cappoquin, Co Waterford, will be on display at the estate in early October. 

Well-known lecturer, author and art historian, Patricia Butler, will launch ‘Garden Art from Tourin’ today at 6.30pm.

The international show is the second of a series of ‘Gardens of Ireland Art Exhibitions’.

Kilmacurragh was the first garden to invite artists to paint subjects in the garden and exhibit their work in a successful show which ran at Glasnevin last year.

Owners, Kristin and Andrea Jameson, said several artists visited the gardens at Tourin in April, and over the following months.

Kristin and her artist sister, Andrea, look forward to exhibiting the bulk of that work.

The exhibition is the final event on the Waterford Garden Trail programme for 2016.

“Among the well-known Irish botanical artists and landscape artists we’ve invited from abroad are; Catherine Wiborg, who is French but lives in Norway; Signe Weka from Norway, Ann Wetheridge from England and Margaret Best from Newfoundland.

“The one and only criterion we have given the artists is the subject must either be a scene from the garden itself or of a plant growing here.

The exhibition is open daily 1-5pm until October 16. For more information visit www.tourin-house.ie