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Photography in the Style of Traditional Chinese Painting

Duncan Brine — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Photography in the Style of Traditional Chinese Painting by Don Hong-Oai | Retronaut

Here, photography jumps into, and, dreamily, clarifies traditional Chinese painting. The effect is startling and unique; the images create a median between a far-off reality and a composed ideal.

This series of images was brought to my attention by a college friend now living in the northwest.
Brine Garden dreaming of Chinese painting

High Line Influences Singapore’s Green Corridor (Video)

Duncan Brine — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:07:14 +0000

Preserving Singapore’s ‘Green Spine’ – Southeast Asia Real Time – WSJ
- …away from the crowds and noise is an unexpected sanctuary: a 26-kilometer, century-old defunct railway connecting Singapore to Malaysia, which environmental groups dream of turning into Singapore’s own version of New York’s High Line, the former elevated rail line that was converted into a trendy urban nature walk through Manhattan’s Meatpacking District and Chelsea neighborhoods.
  
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  Singapore is positioning to be “A city in the Garden”. Julia and I were there briefly, years ago, moving quickly in the blazing heat in search of shadows at midday. The Japanese and Chinese Gardens in the city center are memorable as are the traveller’s palms, sentries in front of the old Raffles Hotel.

Piet Oudolf: Where Ecology Meets Design

Duncan Brine — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:31:08 +0000

Piet Oudolf Where Ecology Meets Design | Ecology Global Network
by Fran Sorin
- Over the last decade, Piet Oudolf has become a ‘superstar’ in the gardening world. But few people have knowledge of the man who creates magnificent works of art. I was compelled to set up an interview with him exactly for that reason. I wanted to better understand his process, priorities, vision, response to his completed designs….in other words, Piet’s ‘gestalt’.
- Piet might like this autumnal detail in the Brine Garden.

Visit the Brine Garden with ArtEast Open Studio Tour

Julia Brine — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:19:34 +0000

The Brine Garden is celebrating its 21^st anniversary with an exhibit of photographs and watercolors. ArtEast Open Studio Tour visitors are welcome to enjoy the exhibit and stroll through the 6-acre garden.

With his original digital Canon Rebel, landscape designer Duncan Brine makes images that share the design principles of his garden, “how it works.”

Duncan’s wife, Julia Brine, his partner in their landscape design firm, Horticultural Design, Inc., depicts botanical and natural subjects in watercolor and pencil.

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Oct. 1 — “Roaming Seminar”– New England Wild Flower Society in the Brine Garden

Julia Brine — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:50:49 +0000

New England Wild Flower Society to visit the Brine Garden | Garden Large

The New England Wild Flower Society to visit the Brine Garden

The Brine Design:
Landscape and Garden Principles in Practice

Join an on-site seminar at landscape designer Duncan Brine’s own six-acre garden. The Brine Garden – now in its 21st year – resembles a public garden, with multiple areas, each with its own character.

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America’s first native plant group, The New England Wild Flower Society of Framingham, Massachusetts is to visit the Brine Garden this fall.

Native plants from Horticultural Design’s nursery help the Brine Garden blend with adjacent naturalistic areas and preserved lands. Anne Raver of The New York Times recently described the garden as a “dream-like landscape.” Author Ruah Donnelly describes The Brine Garden as “a naturalistic display garden of remarkable artistry and diversity.” Prolific garden book author, Tovah Martin, writes that at the Brine Garden, “elements of concealment and surprise are written into the landscape.” This roaming seminar will include a discussion of Duncan Brine’s landscape design process, and respond to your observations and questions.

Leader: Duncan Brine is the Principal of Horticultural Design, Inc., Pawling, NY, as well as an instructor for the New York Botanical Garden.

Fall 2011

Saturday, October 1, from 1pm to 4p

Registration

The Garden Conservancy’s Open Day at the Brine Garden | Oct. 8

Duncan Brine — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:03:48 +0000

The Garden Conservancy’s Open Day at the Brine Garden | Garden Large
- The Garden Conservancy opens the gates of America‘s finest private gardens by inviting the public to visit. The Conservancy’s Open Days Program encourages appreciation of “gardens as living works of art.”
  
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  The Brine Garden – Duncan & Julia Brine
  
  2011 Open Day
  Saturday, October 8, from 12pm to 6pm, rain or shine
  Pawling, NY

Hudson Valley Food Lovers Festival | We’re exhibiting– Say Hello

Duncan Brine — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:52:26 +0000

Friends of the Farmer | Hudson Valley Food Lovers Festival | FARM ON!
- “FRIENDS OF THE FARMER FESTIVAL”
  for Hudson Valley Food Lovers
  
  Taste the best of the Hudson Valley farm movement.
  July 30th, 2011 | 11am-11pm
  Copake Lake, NY

Raver’s Way– Wild – NYTimes.com

Duncan Brine — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:41:13 +0000

In Philadelphia, a Garden Grows Wild – NYTimes.com
- Ms. Ruddick decided to embrace the philosophy embodied in a line she remembered from an old New Yorker: “Don’t just do something. Stand there!”
- She worked for years in India, she said, where people stop for the rituals that mark the passages of life.
  
  “How many times has somebody gotten married, and you just can’t go because of too much work or something?” she asked. “They don’t miss these things. The whole place stops. I feel like we just don’t stop enough.”
  
  What a radical thought: just standing there, in the gardens, and in our lives, too.

Anne Raver NY Times | Reveals Brine Garden as Favorite | The Horticultural Society of New York

Duncan Brine — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:34:38 +0000

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- Monday: Anne Raver talk on her FAVES at the Horticultural Society “closer to home, Duncan and Julia Brine, who have created six acres of wild, painterly gardens in Pawling, NY.? “
  
  The Horticultural Society of New York
  
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  April 11, 2011

Anne’s Favorites:

Bill Noble and Jim Tatum in their rolling valley in Norwich, VT;

Dan Hinkley and Robert Jones at Windcliff, overlooking the Puget Sound in Indianola, WA;

Dennis and Cheryl Kamera on nearby Whidbey Island;

and closer to home, Duncan and Julia Brine, who have created six acres of wild, painterly gardens in Pawling, NY

On Naturalistic Design in “The American Gardener” by Duncan Brine

Julia Brine — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:10:34 +0000

Inviting Nature into Your Garden

If you’re starting a new garden or contemplating a redesign, consider a naturalistic approach, which has renewed relevance in today’s environment.

TWENTY YEARS AGO, I left New York City with my future wife to make a garden and a new life in the country, north of the city. There I found inspiration in moving away from the status quo of traditional gardens and toward a career creating naturalistic gardens….

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