At the Gallery

May 10 through May 20

Bracebridge’s Silver Bridge Gallery ushers in the planting season with “The Secret Garden,” a group show celebrating the beauty of gardens through art.

Beginning May 10, sculptors such as Cathy Mark and Derek Green, whose work represents the two- and three-dimensional ability of hard metal to evoke tree and animal forms, will join Kitras Glass Studios, local folk-art carver Andrea Turnbull and Port Sydney potter Antje Lentze in a show of art that is garden-ready and also suitable for decorating interiors.

New to the gallery are sculptors David Lesser, known for his humorous takes on nature, and

Gail Chavenelle, whose wide range of figurative and floral work puts a romantic spin on stainless or rusted steel. They join the studios of Arte Vargas, which makes hanging glass hummingbirds, and that of Cheryl Ellis, whose concrete orbs can beautify the garden year-round.

 
“The Secret Garden” promises to reveal all of its treasures, from Lentze’s bird baths to funky glass sculpture from Kitras and shaped steel pieces from new and established gallery artists. Look for garden benches, trellises, handmade pot plants and bird feeders to enhance your outdoor spaces, and sculptural work that can be used indoors or out.

“The Secret Garden” is on view until May 20, just in time for spring planting.