Neighbourhood Workshops: Capability Brown, Humphry Repton & the Ideal English Parkscape

This introductory Garden History day course with Laura Mayer provides an overview of the eighteenth-century landscape garden, one of Britain's greatest cultural exports. By focusing on the work of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown and his Regency successor, Humphry Repton, the course charts the rise and fall of the idealised English parkscape.

Competing ideas in garden design were then, as they are today, shaped by changes in prevailing fashion, economic pressures and even political discourse. We shall therefore consider how a revolutionary shift in landscaping style - driven by Brown and his contemporaries - overthrew the formal, geometric gardens of centuries past, in favour of the natural, and eventually the wild.

Our home for the day will be the stunning surroundings of Pennard House, a Grade II listed manor house nestled in the idyllic Somerset countryside. The friendly team at Pennard will ensure you are well looked after throughout your visit with a beautiful 2-course lunch and refreshments, not to mention a welcoming and relaxed atmosphere.

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