Holly Alderman, North Acres Studio

Pocket Gardens of Historic Charlestown, June 20Garden Banners at the Reception

 

Garden Banners will flutter at the beginning and end of the tour, Pocket Gardens of Historic Charlestown on Saturday, June 20, 10 to 4 (click to enlarge flyer).

Banners will welcome garden walkers at the ticket booth and trellis, and will be visible from the main street beyond the beautiful community gardens.

The trellis is a perfect structure for 3 garden banners. Hope to see you at the tour and reception. Garden Banners will be available for sale and special order at a special price.

Photo-Based Art at the Center

"The exhibit is quite diverse and full of terrific work. I've been hearing so much positive feedback about it, and it seems every time I pass through the halls there is someone caught up in a piece of photography." -- Paula Ogier,
Program Planner, Cambridge Center for Adult Education

Friday, June 12, 5:30-7:00 pm, is the reception for our current
exhibit of Photography and Photo-based Art produced by CCAE faculty!
Join us in our gallery at 42 Brattle Street to share some
refreshments, enjoy the exhibit, and chat with the artists.

Exhibitors: Randall Warniers, Cristina Hajosy, Skip Schiel, Holly Alderman, Melinda Bruno-Smith, Tracy Marks, Linda Haas

At the show -- The Birches at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, on satin, 30 x 60 inches. Pictured here a window shade, also ideal as indoor or outdoor tapestry.

Residential murals, before and after...Wall painting makes any place unique

 When I want to create new space without architects and engineers, I paint a mural.

Any beautiful sight or idea can be the inspiration for wall painting.

Bring Italy home!

In a world of sprawl and big box franchises not every location is unique any more, but you can make any place unique with custom site-specific wall art.

At left, before, in a tiny bathroom with no windows, a sketch of an arch for a mural. At right, the mural -- an Italian hill town seen from the second floor balcony over a restaurant with awning and umbrellas and mountain views beyond. I love to invent murals, small or large, for days or months or years.

I research historic images and art history, photographs new and old, stories, light and shadow variations, character, architecture and styles, then imagine a new vision for the present.

At left, the Birch Road of the Sunnyside Murals. At right (click to enlarge photos), the large antique dining room of 14 historic scenes with birches on far left. The brick house in the center is called Hillside, close-up below.

Vistas of imagination, powerful, relaxing and refreshing. Wall art is profound yet personal. It is social history and geographic orientation, permanently contemporary whether Classical, Colonial, modernist, minimal or, even transparent for walls of glass.

I've painted murals for over 40 locations and many faux windows, some as if dogs are looking in from outside... at a gorgeous jacuzzi. Also decorative window coverings, pillars, screens, floors and ceilings.  I'll be adding photos day by day. 

One of the great rewards of mural painting is that people who think about murals and have ideas for their own wall art are imaginative, interesting, original and fun people! All these murals are about special locations, stories, characters, ideas and interests that are wonderful and unique. For your own custom decorative art, 

please call for a consultation and estimate,

603-532-4116. 

Walls, pillars, ceilings and floors can be painted on site,

or scenes and textures can be painted on canvas

in the studio and shipped anywhere for installation. Floor cloths too.

My Hermes "Literally stopped traffic... at Chelsea Flower Show" says front page, NY Social Diary

screen shot of June 4, click to zoom in
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Comments

Dear Holly,
SO many congrats!!!! WOW WOW WOW
D and I went to that show for about 7 years - such BEAUTY - I hope you saw the sweet peas and the delphiniums!
You are AMAZING - so beautiful!!!!!  Your poesie vision and technique are Awesome!
Cheers!
xoxo L

10:36
Hey Holly--Way to go!  What a thrill!  Congrats to YOU!  Much love and hope to connect this summer!  Rebecca

10:42
Terrific! -- Grace

10:44
WOW and WOW and WOW!  Well done, Dear Holly! HUGs from the mountain! Caroline

10:45
Wow! Congratulations!!! Q

10:47
Hooray!!!! Love, Cricket

10:54
good for you...congrats.....Anne

10:57
Great news on the banner. Richard

10:59
WOW.  Thanks so much for a glimpse of your emerging fame…. M.

11:08
Congratulations!~!!  That is wonderful Holly!!! S

11:12
You are FAB. XXX L

11:24
Fantastic! The Chelsea Flower Show!!!! These look fabulous on Nan's site -- Elatia

11:33
Just Facebooked it. So did Connie. Get. On. Facebook. Now. XO, Elatia

11:39
 Sooooo fab- forwarded it right away to hall designer.  You guys are quite the team!!!!!  Best- Ann

11:46
that is so cool . . . . G.R.

11:59
Cheers on this 2009 graduation day!
Bill
I saw this page at New York Shopping Diary and thought of you: http://www.newyorkshoppingdiary.com/store/nan-quickqdgdesign-llc

12:34
Great publicity. Jim

12:36
Many congratulations!!! Gorgeous!! Nancy

12:58
I went to the website and saw it--fabulous. I hope business is booming.  Holly

1:09
ou lala! -Mary

1:17
congrats!!!! Susan

2:47
Congratulations, Holly.  That is really nice!! Barbara

3:13
Not a great surprise, you are really an amazing artist. Keep stopping that traffic!!!! I am truely thrilled for you. M

3:40
Looks beautiful, Holly, and a nice coup!!!! J

4:15
Congratulations, Holly! Very exciting! Happy summer. Hope to see you next  Tues. at art group? xo, S

8:05
That's a great compliment. Paula

8:34 pm
Brilliant! As the British would say. We missed your exhibit by a week. We crossed the Pond to pick up S from her semester abroad.
All the best
Stephen

9:18 pm
That is so totally cool!!! And Eliot is doing so well racing also!!! Everyone's star is rising... K

9:42
Holly, how spectacular a notice.  A friend just got back.  I will have to ask her if she saw it.  Congratulations.  Xxx P

Thanks!!

Postcard from Chelsea Flower Show

London -

18 May - Monday

Dear Holly,
    For our single touristy-activity Pam booked us on the London Eye Ferris Wheel yesterday afternoon: the views were spectacular
& our vertigo surprisingly little.
    Today's the beginning of Press Day. All 5 of your banners are at the front of my tent, gaily flapping in the constant breeze: they look lovely (yes, photos being captured). Tomorrow the huge crowds descend, and I'll report .... My sister (who is a genius at hanging all our fabric panels) is a ROCK of strength. Nan

Day and Night at Riverwalk Public Art Proposal in Lawrence MA

  I wrapped a sliver of the sky around each smokestack at the Riverwalk mills in Lawrence, to propose public art Day and Night

...to create a sense of arrival in Lawrence along Route 495, a vision for a new gateway to the shared environment of the city.

    Public art tells you where you are -- that's my mission, inspired by the subtitle of Placemakers, a favorite book from the Townscape Institute. Public art makes a place memorable and unique. Only an eternal theme, something the same for all people in the present moment and tomorrow, only the most universal theme of all, could be worthy of our vision for the future and for this new public art.

Remember a surprising sight on Boston's Southeast Expressway?  For new inspiration along Route 495 north of Boston, Day and Night would declare a new day dawning with infinite cheer, steadfast, yet always becoming new with changes of time, light and weather, a visual riddle to refresh all who live and work nearby and thousands more commuters.

Light and dark blues for the smokestacks match Riverwalk’s own awnings and banners. First, I painted 12-foot Sonotubes, resting in my studio breezeway. These larger models also have spirals of gold to symbolize spools of thread and the history of Lawrence. The gold shines like sunlight all day, while mica flakes and silver moonbeams symbolize the mystery of night. I simplified the smaller models. Click to enlarge photos.

Last year I visited the mural department of the best contractor to paint huge public art, Evergreene Studios in New York, the leading mural company for decorative painting on skyscraper exteriors with decades of experience across the US, restoring the interior glory of opera houses, court houses, state houses and historic theaters, as well as painting original outdoor public art and hotel and corporate interiors. They are qualified to paint the smokestacks and anything else we might imagine. These designs are copyright © 2009 by Holly Alderman, all rights reserved.

Meet the Dance Gang at a Garden Banners Party

Click for invitation to At Home With The Arts, May 28

Garden Banners in London, Boston, New York --more than decorations for landscapes

In the center of the world's greatest flower show, at the Chelsea Flower Show in London in mid May, visitors will discover Garden Banners -- the new outdoor art form that blends Classical sculptures, architecture, gardens and vistas -- at Nan Quick's garden furnishings, Chelsea hat tent CF-11. Stop by here May 19-23 for photos as the flower show unwinds. Bostonians can visit original Saint-Gaudens garden banners on display at the new showroom of Irish Natural Stone, 21 Drydock Avenue, 7th Floor, open Monday through Friday, 9 to 5, click photos to pop up, and at garden parties and tours May 28 and June 20.

New Yorkers who browse the New York Shopping Diary these days find a preview of the flower show: The Huntress, Diana.

What makes Garden Banners unique and memorable?

Inspired by historic murals, garden banners are more than decorations for places and events, gardens and streets, yards and landscapes. As outdoor murals detached from architecture, garden banners are site-specific installations with an historic theme and purpose. Garden banners are moveable murals of outdoor spaces, that bring together layers of time and reflect the meaning of a special place in an original style.

• Garden banners synthesize the history and meaning of a special location, to honor the architecture, social history, community and wider environment in a composition of iconic and personal symbols.
• Garden banners reflect the character, talent and interests of the owners, past and present, whether individuals or an organization or the public.
• Garden banners relate to the current use of the space, viewers and visitors.
• Garden banners are designed in scale and style appropriate to the landscape and architecture.
• Garden Banners capture the present moment in time, in content, in original style and technique.
• Garden Banners are a form of social and aesthetic commentary through the eye, heart and hand of the artist.

The Boston Home Garden Gallery:Blend of Interior and Exterior Spaces

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:  Florence Rawls, 617.326.4310, frawls@thebostonhome.org

AT HOME WITH THE ARTS

Dorchester, MA – The Garden Gallery at The Boston Home will extend the arts exhibition space inside the residential facility to include the outside garden for a benefit reception and art auction Thursday May 28th, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. At Home with the Arts will feature a site-specific installation of artwork and dance, with live musical performance at the Residence and Care Center for adults with advanced multiple sclerosis and other progressive neurological diseases.

         Designer Holly Alderman’s Garden Banners will hang in the garden space, mirroring the art hung in an adjacent interior space. The garden and sculpture images, digitally layered on translucent satin, will be featured at Art Meets the Garden, the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show in London, May 19-32 at Nan Quick (center hat tent SR-11), and have recently been featured at the Architectural Digest Home Décor Show in New York and the Boston Society of Architects Residential Design Show. More Banners, prints, tapestry and gold paintings are on display at Irish Natural Stone by the Boston Design Center at 21 Drydock Avenue.

          Dance Gang, a New York-based site-specific performance duo who have performed nationally and internationally will use the interior and exterior spaces of the Garden Gallery. The internationally recognized, Dorchester based, youth chorus will add voices to the multi-media event: www.bostoncitysingers.org.

          The Boston Home is nationally known for its use of universal design and technology to support independence and replace lost function for its residents. Wireless sensors on each wheelchair interact with wall panels placed next to exterior doors and elevators giving residents easy access to the entire facility as well as exterior spaces.

Founded in 1881, The Boston Home is a not-for-profit, residence and center for care of adults with advanced Multiple Sclerosis and other progressive neurological diseases.  The Boston Home is designated as a “center of excellence in long term care” by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. It is the only facility of its kind in New England and one of only a few in the United States. The Boston Home Institute advances standards for care through research, advocacy, and training. The Boston Home Outpatient Services provide therapeutic and social programs for outpatients. 
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Garden Banners Order Catalog

Seen at the Chelsea Flower Show in May 2009 and on the front page of the New York Social Diary in June. Soon at the Charlestown Garden Tour, June 20.

Bring the glory of Saint-Gaudens' beautiful gardens and iconic sculptures indoors! Click thumbnails for larger images. Garden banners are ideal for interior decor as tapestries and window coverings, as well as outdoor display in gardens and streetscapes. Created for a Special Exhibition at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, NH, these designs are available as limited edition prints. Choose standard and custom sizes, and many fabrics: satin, sheer silk, canvas, polyester (fire retardant), acetate film and other substrates including archival paper.

More decorator applications include garden party and garden tour decorations, tapestries indoors and out, framed prints on paper and canvas, window shades, curtains, shower curtains, folding screens, tents, note cards, tote bags, and more.

Prices for enhanced matte paper below. Prices for poly FR, cotton FR, satin, canvas, silk, eco-friendly vinyl substitute and Phototex, on request, 603-532-4116.

(A) DIANA SKYFIELD

Sizes

X-Large (42 x 66 inches), $400

Large (36 x 56 in.), $300

Medium (24 x 38 in.), $200.00

Small (14 x 22 in.), $100.00

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(B) DIANA SOJOURN

X-Large (42 x 82), $500

Large (36 x 70), $400

Medium (24 x 46), $200

Small (14 x 26), $100

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(C) AMOR

X-Large (42 x 66 inches), $400

Large (36 x 60 in.), $300

Medium (24 x 38 in.), $200.00

Small (14 x 22 in.), $100.00

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(D) AMOR SUMMER

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(E) AMOR SKY

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(F) AMOR SUNSET

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(G) MAGIC FLUTE variation

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(H) PATH from OLYMPUS

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(I) GOLDEN VICTORY

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(J) FLUTE MAGIC

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(K) GOLDEN COMEDY

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(L) PEACE

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(M) CORNISH MEMORIES

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(N) HERMES IN THE HOLLYHOCKS

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(O) AMOR GLOW

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(P) HIAWATHA

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(Q) DOUBLE MESSENGER

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(R) LINCOLN and the 54th REGIMENT

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(S) CLASSICAL GARDEN ORNAMENTS

and more on request

Questions? call 603-532-4116. We appreciate your interest and look forward to talking with you.

DETAILS: these prints are signed, numbered, limited edition prints created with state-of-the-art archival museum-quality ink, on archival paper or cloth, for hanging as tapestries or framing.

SIZES: available in widths of 42, 36, 24, 18 and 12 inches wide and various lengths, and custom sizes up to 90 inches long, with or without borders.

TO ORDER: scroll through the photos for images and sizes to make your selection. Allow 2 weeks for printmaking and delivery by Priority Mail, UPS, FedEx International or DHL.

PAYMENT: can be made with Paypal invoice through email, using major credit card, or by check through the mail if you prefer.