Sketches and writings from the garden + other stories

In and Out of the Garden

Published in 1991 by Workman Publishing, New York and in Great Britain by Sidgwick and Jackson

I had been actually working on it as sort of vague idea for some time, inspired by old gardening books including The Old English Garden Books by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde and another old gardening book I had found called A New Orchard and Garden. It was when I went to New York that I met my agent Ted Riley and he took me to see the US publisher Workman and left my portfolio for them to look at. The day I left New York I went to collect it and they commissioned the book straight away asking me what I would like to do first. I lived in London then and didn’t have a garden as I lived in a flat. I would grow things in pots on my balcony but I’d always loved gardens and visited them as a child. I had a very clear idea of what it would be and worked closely with my editor at Workman. It was first published in the US and then Sedgwick and Jackson published it in the UK. The only other publisher was Japan as it was difficult to translate as the text was integrated with the artwork.

Cover and dust jacket:

IN AND OUT OF THE GARDEN

Ink and watercolour

9 x 14 ¼ inches

Spread from book:

IN AND OUT OF THE GARDEN

Ink and watercolour

THE ARTICHOKE

Ink and watercolour

Paradise Garden

WATERING CAN AND GARDENING FORK
Watercolour
1 ½ x 1 ¾ inches

WHAT WAS PARADISE?
Watercolour
4 x 2 ¾ inches

A CHOICE OF GARDENER
Ink with pencil 5 x 9 ½ inches

MIXED ROOT VEGETABLES

SOWING

The Pleasures of an Orchard

XXXX Watercolour 4 ½ x 2 ¼ inches THE PLEASURES OF AN ORCHARD Watercolour with pencil 1 x 1 inches

TOPIARY
Ink
5 ¼ x 4 inches

WHOOPS AND SHOUTS ALL THROUGH THE DAY, KEEP BIRDS FROM FRUIT FAR AWAY
Watercolour and ink
6 x 5 inches

DOUBTLESS GOD COULD HAVE MADE A BETTER BERRY
BUT DOUBTLESS GOD NEVER DID
Watercolour
8 x 6 inches

PRESERVED PLUMS
AND CARVED PEARS
Watercolour and ink
8 x 6 inches

RECIPES FOR FRUIT
Watercolour and ink
8 x 6 inches

TALK TO YOUR BEES AND THEY WILL NOT
HARM YOU, FOR THEY LOVE THEIR FRIENDS

Watercolour and ink
5 ½ x 3 ¼ inches

ESPALIERS
Watercolour and ink
4 ¼ x 3 inches

A COVERED PATH
Watercolour
4 ½ x 3 inches

xxx

xxxxxx

The Vegetable Garden

THE VEGETABLE GARDEN
Watercolour
4 ½ x 2 ¼ inches

CABBAGE LADY
Watercolour with pencil
1 x 1 inches

VEGETABLES

Ink and watercolour
8 x 12 inches

VEGETABLE GRID Watercolour with pencil
5 ¼ x 4 inches

IN EARLY SPRING SOME SEEDS WE SOW,
AND WITH WHAT HOPE
WE WATCH THEM GROW …Watercolour with seed packet and seeds aﬃxed
8 x 7 inches