Big Bone Gardens

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Here are some photos of Big Bone Gardens after a heavy snowstorm in February 2010.

Mark’s cabin

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Here are some daffodils in the woods.

City Beat, Cincinnati’s local magazine with news, music, art, events and opinions, recommends Clare Darley’s art exhibit on Big Bone Gardens.

Claire Darley is a professor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, a four-year art college founded in 1869.  The Collector’s Art Group is hosting an art exhibit featuring Darley’s work, which includes watercolors and plein air drawings of the lotus pond at Big Bone Gardens.

City Beat’s Jane Durrell said in a review:  “Claire Darley gives us a lilting reminder of the ways that the medium an artist uses alters the appearance of the subject matter in Abundance at Collector’s Art Group now through April 10.  The small gallery blooms with Darley’s reflections on Lotus Pond at Big Bone Gardens in Kentucky through watercolor, charcoal, graphite and in a monoprint.  The gardens overflow with all the shades of green a paint box can hold and also prove to be a repository of interesting shapes.  This complexity of shape is different in the several large charcoal drawings than in the single, intense graphite drawing.  The monoprint nails things down, but the watercolors almost suggest motion in their glowing depth.  Darley, a longtime Art Academy professor, clearly loves this pulsing subject matter and puts her hand to any medium that seems appropriate in sharing it with others.”

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Claire Darley is a professor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, a four-year art college founded in 1869.  The Collector’s Art Group is hosting an art exhibit featuring Darley’s work, which includes watercolors and plein air drawings of the lotus pond at Big Bone Gardens.

“Big Bone Pond”, 2008, monotype, 15” x 11.5”

“Lotus Pond”, 2008, graphite, 30” x 22”

The exhibit continues through April 10 at:

Collector’s Art Group
225 E. Sixth St., Second floor
Cincinnati, OH  45202
Phone: 513-587-0220

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Date: 1/21/2010
Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Time: 8:30 PM

Description:

Come listen to Mark Lawhorn of Big Bone Gardens, a 6-acre garden and sales nursery across from Big Bone Lick State Park, speak on heirloom seeds and gardening at the Boone County Historical Society January meeting.

Library: Main Library    Map to Main Library
Location: Meeting Room A
Contact: Pat Yannarella
Contact Number: 859-342-2665 x8113

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Here is a new photo of our cabin in the spring.

My aunt and uncle hiked with us at our neighbor’s beautiful Big Bone Gardens.

Standing by a cute lily pond, which is the smaller of two.

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