Watercolour and crayon
@2015 Charlene Brown
The fourth of this year’s Sunday Art Lecture
Series, Shibusa
Aesthetics: Spontaneity in Japanese Gardens” was to
have taken place March 29, but has been postponed to October 4.
According to Dr. David Young, who will
present this lecture, "The goal of a traditional Japanese garden is to re-create
nature in an artistic way that improves upon nature. But can something be
natural and artificial at the same time? This interesting challenge was met in
Japan with the concept of shibusa, which can be translated as ‘restrained
spontaneity’ and has been used to create gardens that are not really
spontaneous and natural but appear to be so."
I sketched this part of the Imperial Gardens during a tour of Japan with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in November 2015.
