Monet’s lifelong engagement with the garden at Giverny also places the publication within a wider conversation about gardens as sites of artistic inspiration, explored in two recent Tate Publishing titles, Art of the Garden and The Artist’s Garden. Together, the books consider how gardens can become both subjects for art and creative spaces in their own right.
Art of the Garden (£40 hardback)
Publishing this October, Art of the Garden is a richly illustrated new edition of Tate's original publication, first published 20 years ago. Spanning more than two centuries of British art, it explores how gardens have been imagined by artists from 1800 to the present day, bringing together new essays, interviews and contemporary perspectives. New contributions include a conversation between Maria Balshaw and landscape designer Tom Stuart-Smith about Tate Britain’s Clore Garden, alongside essays by Olivia Laing, Claire Ratinon and others exploring gardens as places of creativity, learning and community.
The Artist's Garden (£20 hardback)
Alongside it, Tate Publishing will also release The Artist's Garden, a beautifully illustrated gift book by Jonny Bruce, head gardener at Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage. Exploring around 25 artists and their own gardens including Barbara Hepworth and the Bloomsbury Group, the book reveals how these intimate green spaces became places of inspiration, reflection and sanctuary. The Artist's Garden is a fitting companion to the ideas and themes behind Tate Britain's new Clore Garden.
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Both titles are available to pre-order at shop.tate.org.uk and, from October 2026, will be available in Tate shops and through selected booksellers.
About the Books
Art of the Garden | Hardback | 9781917055642 | £40 | 08.10.2026
The Artist’s Garden | Hardback | 9781917055321 | £20 | 08.10.2026
Biographies
Art of the Garden
Nicholas Alfrey is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Cultural Media and Visual Studies. His interests are in landscape since 1800 as a genre that continually crosses media boundaries, and in the legacies of Romanticism in British art.
Stephen Daniels is Professor of Cultural Geography, Emeritus, at the University of Nottingham. In 2015, he received the prestigious Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographical Society which is awarded "for conspicuous merit in research in geography". He has curated exhibitions at Tate and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Martin Postle is a senior research fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre. Prior to his present appointment, Martin was Deputy Director for Grants and Publications at the Centre, and previously Senior Curator and Head of British Art to 1900 at Tate.
With additional contributions by Amy Concannon, Brent Elliott, Mary Horlock, Olivia Laing, Claire Ratinon, Bob and Roberta Smith, and Ben Tufnell.
The Artist’s Garden
Jonny Bruce is a gardener, writer, and planting consultant. After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in History of Art, Bruce moved to Wales to become a horticultural apprentice at Aberglasney Gardens under the careful eye of Joseph Atkins. A year later he was awarded the Christopher Lloyd Scholarship and lived for two years at Great Dixter in East Sussex, working alongside Fergus Garrett before leaving for the Netherlands where he spent over four years with Hans and Miranda Kramer at the organic, perennial nursery, De Hessenhof. He now looks after Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, and travels widely researching gardens and landscapes with his dog Frida.
About the Clore Garden at Tate Britain
Designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, the Clore Garden will become a major new public space at Tate Britain, bringing together art, nature and community. Inspired by works in Tate's collection and featuring sculptures by Modern and Contemporary British artists alongside biodiverse planting and outdoor learning spaces, it reimagines how museums can connect people with both art and the natural world.