Illustrated talk by Rose Horspool on Gertrude Jekyll, the pioneering garden designer who, with Sir Edwin Lutyens, shaped the English garden style.
Rose Horspool is coming to Hull Guildhall on Tuesday 26 January to talk about Gertrude Jekyll, one of the first professional plantswomen and garden designers. It's an illustrated talk, an hour long, and it's part of the Hull Literary & Philosophical Society's 26/27 season.
If you've never come across Jekyll, she worked across the 19th and 20th centuries, most famously in close collaboration with the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Together they created gardens that helped shape the quintessential 'English Garden' style for more than a century, so if you've ever admired a classic English border, you're looking at something she had a hand in defining. The talk is an exploration of her work and her place in garden history.
Horspool is an East Riding-born artist, writer, historian and lecturer who's taught art, art history, garden design and history to degree level, and has worked as a freelance illustrator and garden designer. She holds a deep admiration for Jekyll and a particular interest in the history of garden design and its designers, so she's coming at this from both a professional and a personal place. It's a good fit for the subject: someone who knows the technical side of garden design but also the art history behind it.
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Doors normally open at 6.45pm and the talk starts at 7.30pm prompt, and it's an illustrated hour, so there'll be plenty to look at while she talks through Jekyll's work. The session is held at Hull Guildhall on Tuesday 26 January.
