Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
— Elizabeth Murray


Author, photographer, painter, and garden designer Elizabeth Murray assisted in the restoration of Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France, and has been photographing them annually for more than twenty-five years. Her work is housed in several museums and private collections, including the De Young Museum of San Francisco and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Murray is the author of numerous gardening and art books, including Painterly Photography: Awakening the Artist Within and Cultivating Sacred Space: Gardening for the Soul. She resides in Monterey, California, where she designs gardens as healing spaces and teaches creativity classes using photography, painting, and flowers.

Click here to listen to author Elizabeth Murray share her experience volunteering at Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France, on American Public Media’s “The Story” (scroll down to the "Listen Now!" button).

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