Gertrude Jekyll - Most Acclaimed Garden Designer in The World, Honoured By Google Doodle

Gertrude Jekyll

Google pays tribute to Gertrude Jekyll today (born November 29, 1843), one of the most prestigious London Garden Designer (landscaper) of the Arts and Crafts period, thanks to her association with British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, for whose projects she created numerous gardens .

Jekyll has been described as "a first influence in the design of gardens" by American and English enthusiasts of this particular art.

She is remembered for designing nearly 400 gardens that are directly linked to impressionism. From the theoretical perspective, her vision is related to the theories of color and her ideas responded to the harmonization experiments that were being proposed for the time when she made her arrangements.

"When the eye is trained to perceive a pictorial effect it is often seduced by something - a certain combination of groupings, light and color - that are considered essential to have that complete aspect of unity and beauty that for the eye of the eye. artist forms a painting, "he wrote in Color Schemes for the Flower Garden (1914).

He spent most of his life in Surrey, England, later moved to Munstead Wood, Godalming. He ran a garden center and raised many new plants. Some of its gardens have been faithfully restored, totally or partially, and can be visited in different parts of England. The Godalming Museum has many of its notebooks and copies of all its garden drawings, while the original drawings are at the University of California, Berkeley.

Gertrude Jekyll - Honoured By Google Doodle

His brother the Reverend Walter Jekyll was a friend of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson and he borrowed his last name for the main character of his famous novel Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.

What's Doodle says: A woman of innumerable talents, Jekyll was also an accomplished musician, composer, woodworker, metalworker, and botanist. Her foundation as a budding artist greatly influenced her breathtaking creations. As a student, she took inspiration from the landscapes of English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner, capturing the seasons, the light, the textures, and the hues of every growing thing on her canvases. Jekyll brought that painterly sensibility to her life’s work, designing about 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S., which were documented in photographs, over a dozen books, and thousands of magazine articles.

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