Art from the Garden

Bring the beauty of your surroundings into your home through 25 tasteful art projects featured in the gorgeous creative guide.​ Art from the Garden is your guide to creating works of art with materials from nature and your own backyard. Learn how to transform natural materials—flowers, leaves, stones, twigs—into artful pieces that bring warmth and character to your home. Through 25 beautifully photographed, fully illustrated, step-by-step projects, artist and photographer Kerry Michaels shows how to create works that capture the textures and colors of the garden. Follow her clear and engaging instructions to create visually stunning frozen floral luminarias, flowing sun printed silk scarves, striking vases using twigs, a playful arrangement of gilded weeds, and so much more.  Offering inspiration, practical techniques, and design ideas, this book celebrates individual style and creativity. For beginners and experienced artists and craftspeople, Art from the Garden is perfect for those wishing to blend creativity with nature’s beauty and bounty in sophisticated and highly personalized ways. 

Kerry Michaels is a writer and photographer living in Freeport, Maine. She photographed A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers, Growing the Northeast Garden, The Proven Winners Garden Book, Modern Pressure Canning, and The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables. Her photographs have appeared in Better Homes & Gardens, Down East, Gardenista, Remodelista, and Coastal Home, where she was also a contributing writer. Her writing clients have included PBS, Disney, Scholastic, Sesame Workshop, CBS News Productions, Hearst, and Country Living. Her photographs are included in private and museum collections. For eight years, she was the writer and photographer for an internationally popular container gardening website, and she co-produced and co-directed the award-winning documentary River of Steel. Liz Micheels (project stylist) is a first-generation American whose parents immigrated to the US from the Netherlands. Flowers and gardens are part of her Dutch culture and have always been central to her life. After a career in social services — teaching, working with at-risk youth and refugees, as well as reproductive healthcare counseling — Liz started Artful Blooms, a floral business specializing in personalized and creative flower and plant design for inside and out. Additionally, she has worked as a stylist for photo shoots in advertising, food, and flowers.