Rooted in personal experience and ecological observation, this reflection traces the evolving relationship between painting and gardening in the artist’s practice. From an initial focus on formal garden structures to an embrace of rewilding and “purposeful neglect”, the artist’s studio garden becomes a living collaborator, shaping both subject matter and palette. Botanical travels, seasonal cycles, and environmental changes inform a visual language that merges materiality with memory, presence with absence. Through color, texture, and spatial openness, the work engages with nature’s lifecycles and invisible systems, offering meditative spaces that honor transformation, loss, and the enduring vitality of the natural world.
In conversation: Eric Dever and Giovanni Aloi
ISSUE 67 — SUMMER 2025
