Garden design and painting: Raising awareness of your connection to nature

Garden design, then painting: 

Raising your awareness

 of your connection 

to nature 


Use this awareness 
to design a garden  
then paint that garden 

2 field trips :   Charco El Ingenio, private local garden

In Japan, a forest bathing trip, called Shinrin-yoku in Japanese, is a short, leisurely visit to a forest and is regarded as being similar to natural aromatherapy.   Here we chaparral ‘bathe’ in both the Charco del Ingenio and later a private garden, breathing in the volatile essential oils, learning to identify why and what and how, all the while increasing our sensitivity to our relationship with ... and  those among ... plants.  Then we use this new found understanding, combined with fractal geometry, to design a garden, which we will then paint. 

Study program . one week Mon-Fri  .  10:00 - 3:00  .  4 hours daily  =  20 hours of instruction 
Breaks for lunch, and morning and afternoon snack ... food not included 
Field trips Monday ( Charco del Ingenio) morning
and Wednesday (private garden) morning

Spanish with translator

Weeks of:   30-03 Feb / 13-17 Feb / 27-02 March / 12-16 March

     Or by special arrangement   

Minimum 8 students  ::  Maximum 13 students 

Current reservations:  0 

Tuition:   2,990 pesos ... including registration and insurance.

Plus trips and transportation payable in class:  discounts being arranged

Plus bring to class:   coming soon

Born in Caracas, Isabel Zerpa is a Venezuelan architect who now lives in San Miguel Allende.  Her Master’s degree is in Landscape with an emphasis on Garden Design. Her slogan is "more green, more well-being."   Isabel utilizes fractal geometry in her architecture and landscape design. Fractal organization is the language and mathematical patterns that Nature uses to express life. Isabel’s research led her to study the biological response of humans when they come in contact with nature.  Knowing that our well being is often disturbed by environmental stress conditions, she wanted to know how nature and it’s designs impacts the state of mind favoring and restoring an emotional sense of the positive.

Information on the fractal nature of life can be reviewed here