Eric D. Groft - The Artful Garden

MHG Meetings

Sponsored By: Metro Hort Group

Eric Groft will encourage everyone to find inspiration in the arts: painting, sculpture, even dance and ballet. Whether it’s a ten-foot-square city terrace or a ten-acre expanse, the same principles apply: the intelligent use of positive and negative space, of form and scale, of light and shadow, of rough and smooth textures. Eric illustrates the connection between the path in a garden and the horizon of an iconic painting, the syncopation of jazz and the free form of nature, and the intrigue of a good novel and the mystery of a thoughtfully sculpted landscape. Eric will share case studies of gardens from the sandy beaches of Sagaponack to the rolling hills of northern West Chester County.

Eric D. Groft, Principal and Vice President of Oehme van Sweden website is http://ovsla.com/, is renowned for his diversity in residential, commercial and institutional work from Manhattan rooftop terraces to a 3,500-acre nature preserve/hunting lodge in Maryland. In his work, he takes pride in his sense of regionalism and attention to the vernacular. He has a passion for horticulture and is dedicated to taking OvS’s New American Garden Style into the 21st Centrury. Eric is widely recognized as an industry leader in environmental/wetland restoration, and shoreline stabilization/revetment. He is a frequent lecturer on these topics.

Visit Oehme van Sweden’s website at http://ovsla.com/