Talks will be held in a covered outdoor area. All events are free of charge. No booking required, just turn up. Details given here may vary from the printed h-Art brochure. This site shows the most up to date schedule.

Sat 5 Sep, 11am-12

Haiku Reading by John Rux-Burton - poems charting a year in a Japanese garden

Sat 5 Sep, 3-4pm

‍ ‘Why has that stream got no water in it?’  A garden tour and introduction to Japanese aesthetic, some of the ideas behind gardening in Japan, space, space between, pace and viewpoint that make it one of the world’s oldest art forms.

Sun 6 Sep, 11am-12

Second Life - John Rux-Burton gives a tour of the garden focusing on the extraordinary plants from across the UK that have been saved destruction and given a new home in the Welsh Marches

Sun 6 Sep, 3-4pm

Inkwash in the digital age - Artist Elliot Rux-Burton talks about how he paints digitally in one of the world’s oldest painting styles.

Mon 7 Sep, 11am-12

‘Of cursi and circuses’ Over 5000 years ago the people of Radnorshire were making theatre from the landscape of the Walton Basin. The UK’s earliest ‘art installation’?

Mon 7 Sep, 3-4pm

Pareidolia in Art - Who makes the image, the artist or the viewer?  John Rux-Burton talks about his images exhibited in the Pagoda.

Tue 8 Sep, 11am-12

Japanese Planting - Master Gardener Justin Lloyd  gives a tour of the garden and talks about the plant choices made to make the garden authentic but unique

Wed 9 Sep, 3-4pm

Symbolism in art - a tour of garden, images and poems, discussing how multiple readings that provoke questions can be more interesting than definitive statements

Thur 10 Sep, 11am-12

Japanese Pruning and Shaping - Master Gardener Justin Lloyd gives a tour of the garden and talks about how the plants in it are being gradually formed to extenuate beauty and space.

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Thur 10 Sep, 3-4pm

Haiku Reading by John Rux-Burton - poems charting a year in a Japanese garden.

Fri 11 Sep, 11-12

‘The Night above the Dingle Starry’ The Welsh Marches is where the ‘cradled night’ was born. Talk with readings from the metaphysicals, to Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, to poets today, charting our changing perception of Night

Fri 11 Sep, 3-4pm

A Sense of Place - Photographer and Author John Rux-Burton, with readings and images, talks about his forthcoming book on images where great landscape poems were written.

Sat 12 Sep, 11am-12

Hail Twilight! How a photograph led John Rux-Burton to the story of Wordsworth in Radnorshire and his discovery of Wordsworth’s Hindwell cycle of poems

Sat 12 Sep, 3-4pm

‘Mitate Mono’ - Things Re-seen. Creating a Japanese garden where beauty comes from taking the discarded and not simply re-using but elevating objects to new and beautiful uses. A garden tour with John Rux-Burton

Sun 13 Sep, 11-12

Pareidolia in Art - Who makes the image, the artist or the viewer?  John Rux-Burton talks about his images exhibited in the Pagoda.

Sun 13 Sep, 3-4pm

Second Life - John Rux-Burton gives a tour of the garden focusing on the extraordinary plants from across the UK that have been saved destruction and given a new home in the Welsh Marches