Hear Gardens’ Photographer Scott Dressel-Martin: June 3 in Denver, July 16 in Vail

Scott Dressel-Martin is the Gardens’ official photographer.  He has his own business, which keeps him hopping from shoot to shoot and client to client, generating wonderful photographs of many subjects.  You’ve seen his work all over www.botanicgardens.org, and on this blog, and in the Gardens’ newsletter and multiple books.  If I could hang only photographic art on my walls, I’d still be out of space after Scott’s portfolio. 

However Scott is also an instructor at Denver Botanic Gardens, and very popular one: not just for his botanical photography, but because he has invested himself in the Gardens, its staff and its members.  He radiates back the same enthusiasm that people feel for the plants, and art and community, and he teaches you how to see it photographically.

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UnReal Art at the Gardens

Real/UnReal: Botanical Studies by John Bonath, the current art exhibit in Gates Garden Court at our York Street location, sets our concrete walls ablaze with color. From afar, the works are simply appealing interpretations of botanical subjects. Portraits, perhaps. There is more than meets the eye, however. This manipulated digital photography by the well-known Denver artist is born out of the ideologies of Magic Realism and asks viewers to contemplate their definition of reality. A companion display provides secrets to understanding the artist’s process and provides clues to which portraits are of “real” flowers. Or - are any of these images “real?” Be sure to visit the exhibit before January 4 to decide for yourself.