Dr. Neil’s Garden in Edinburgh is an urban haven, a place that has something to tell us about all places.
With delicacy and tender attention, artist Brigid Collins and poet Christine De Luca respond to the garden, looking deeply into how it feeds a vital and growing sensitivity to the fragility of our shared futures.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase @ £15.00
Published by Main Point Books, Edinburgh
This event will be followed by an optional short walk to the adjacent Dr. Neil’s Garden and a tour of Felt Sense, an exhibition of drawings, paintings and artist’s books by Brigid Collins.
Light refreshments will be available(from 12 noon) for purchase from The Garden Room Café located between the Kirk Hall and Dr. Neil’s Garden.
With a shared vision, technical finesse and grace of expression, Christine De Luca and Brigid Collins evoke a sense of the unique nature of Dr. Neil’s Garden, confirming the imagination and philosophy behind its creation.
Stewart Conn, Edinburgh poet and the city’s inaugural Makar
If we allow ourselves, we can slip into slow time and experience the world from a different perspective. This beautiful book transports us to a different mode of being through which we can feel part of something much bigger than ourselves.
Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well-Gardened Mind
Imbued with care and attention, this book conjures a
particular landscape of spirit and earth. Both artist and poet
express a reverence for the unknowable with humility and
tenderness.
Dr Kitty Wheater, Mindfulness Chaplain at the University of Edinburgh
