{"title":"Mary-Beth LaViolette","description":"Mary-Beth Laviolette is an independent curator and writer with a visual art practice spanning forty years. She is the author of An Alberta Art Chronicle and A Delicate Art: Artists, Wildflowers, and Native Plants of the West. She has curated exhibitions for the Art Gallery of Alberta, Calgary's Glenbow Museum, the Whyte Museum, and more. Mary-Beth is the recipient of many awards, including the Alberta Centennial Medal and Artist in the Spotlight.","products":[{"product_id":"greatest-garden-the-paintings-of-david-more-paperback","title":"Greatest Garden: The Paintings of David More - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid More is one of western Canada's exceptional painters. Based in the rural hamlet of Benalto, near Red Deer Alberta, he is part of a generation of landscape artists who emerged in the 1970s to make beauty out of the ordinary and challenge the expected with bold acts of creation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, More has returned to the garden as a deeply functional yet ritualistic space of human endeavour. The garden is a place of shelter and sanctuary, of colour and fragrance, of order and wilderness. The garden is a private space, carefully tended and planted, observed en plein air or through the living-room window. The garden is a public space, a park where people gather to let their natures blossom. The garden is the world, the nature that sustains and surround us, the environment we all live within, and all have a responsibility to cultivate and tend.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreatest Garden\u003c\/em\u003e is a celebration of David More's engagement with the garden as a multifaceted subject. Featuring over fifty original artworks, this book encompasses a career spent in conversation with gardens in their many and varied forms. With lively brushwork, a keen sense of colour, and an aptitude for expressive drawing and varied composition, More has found the garden in expected and unexpected places. In \u003cem\u003eGreatest Garden\u003c\/em\u003e you are welcomed to walk its sunlit paths.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51170995765471,"sku":"9781773852249","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kPrHcGi3dR9781773852249.webp?v=1786351923"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mary-beth-laviolette.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}