Bedrock gardens located in Lee, NH is a botanical and sculpture garden that defies categorization. It is simultaneously serene, artistic, whimsical, and a botanical bonanza. Each section of the garden evokes a different mood and so each visit will find you reflecting on a different life experience or mood or emotional need. It is hard to describe a place that can grip your heart, feel so very spiritual, and then leave you chuckling over the “Family Jewels”…just go there, please.

I adore everything about the lotus plant: flowers, leaves, seed pods. I had the privilege of going to the garden and drawing them.

Taking a field drawing experience and photo and turning it into a piece of art is a labor of love. It involves composition, color selection, value and hue. It takes understanding the paper and the media and how they work together. Here is the work in progress.

You can see the finished product in the portfolio.