To me gardens are part larder, part medicine cabinet, part sanctuary, part living painting. Many years ago I had my own garden in London, a thin narrow plot in East London which I turned into a brick paved cottage garden after much trial and error and with many an inspirational trip to legendary gardens like Sissinghurst and Beth Chatto's garden. This connection with nature is important to me, but what does a gardener do when he no longer has a garden -I now live in a five floor walkup apartment in New York City?
I garden occasionally-almost weekly in the summer at a friend's garden in Mamaroneck. I also cultivate and tend indoors an assortment of jars and pots that huddle on the window ledges of my apartment that come to life when the summer sun is high enough and the winter radiators are turned off and I roam the public gardens of New York City as if they were my own. This digital plot is a visual journal of my activities in these borrowed, urban and random spaces. From my hotch potch garden I enjoy and cultivate the very same things that artists, medieval monks, peasants and all the folk that identify with the term' gardener' have done for centuries- food, medicine, sanctuary and art.
I'm a graphic artist and textile designer who also dabbles in painting and filmmaking. Gardens, gardening and all things botanical serve as inspiration and creative muse here and I explore the concept of nature and urban life further in Occasional Oasis. OGMedia curates interesting things I find on the wild web on things horticultural and GreenKraft explores making things with a green sensibility,
The name Occasional Gardener (and the Occasional Oasis Supply Association) are from a short story by H H Munro
