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With Liz Micheels

On Sale: May 12, 2026
Page Count: 252 pages
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN-13: 9781643264172

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Bring the beauty of your surroundings into your home through 25 tasteful art projects featured in the gorgeous creative guide.

Art from the Garden is your guide to creating works of art with materials from nature and your own backyard. Learn how to transform natural materials—flowers, leaves, stones, twigs—into artful pieces that bring warmth and character to your home. Through 25 beautifully photographed, fully illustrated, step-by-step projects, artist and photographer Kerry Michaels shows how to create works that capture the textures and colors of the garden. Follow her clear and engaging instructions to create visually stunning frozen floral luminarias, flowing sun printed silk scarves, striking vases using twigs, a playful arrangement of gilded weeds, and so much more.

Offering inspiration, practical techniques, and design ideas, this book celebrates individual style and creativity. For beginners and experienced artists and craftspeople, Art from the Garden is perfect for those wishing to blend creativity with nature’s beauty and bounty in sophisticated and highly personalized ways.

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Kerry Michaels is a writer and photographer living in Freeport, Maine. She photographed A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers, Growing the Northeast Garden, The Proven Winners Garden Book, Modern Pressure Canning, and The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables. Her photographs have appeared in Better Homes & Gardens, Down East, Gardenista, Remodelista, and Coastal Home, where she was also a contributing writer. Her writing clients have included PBS, Disney, Scholastic, Sesame Workshop, CBS News Productions, Hearst, and Country Living. Her photographs are included in private and museum collections. For eight years, she was the writer and photographer for an internationally popular container gardening website, and she co-produced and co-directed the award-winning documentary River of Steel.

Liz Micheels (project stylist) is a first-generation American whose parents immigrated to the US from the Netherlands. Flowers and gardens are part of her Dutch culture and have always been central to her life. After a career in social services — teaching, working with at-risk youth and refugees, as well as reproductive healthcare counseling — Liz started Artful Blooms, a floral business specializing in personalized and creative flower and plant design for inside and out. Additionally, she has worked as a stylist for photo shoots in advertising, food, and flowers.

“Michaels invites readers to turn the garden into a creative studio, showing how everyday natural materials can become art…. she leaves readers encouraged to explore playful new ways of making art with nature.”
Booklist
"In an age when screens capture our attention, every opportunity to connect hands and earth with art and imagination can refresh the human spirit. Art from the Garden offers dozens of ephemeral art projects and heirloom keepsakes that will inspire any gardener, parent, grandparent, or child to find connection in their own backyard."
John Forti, author of The Heirloom Gardener
“An inspiring read full of engaging, accessible activities. A work of art in its own right!”
Dr. Daisy Fancourt, Author of Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives
“A stellar guide to creating artworks with materials from nature… All projects include easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and photos of the elegant finished products. Crafters will be inspired by the possibilities nature has to offer.”
Publishers Weekly
"This excellent resource combines gardening with various art forms for crafts that the average person can do easily."
Library Journal, starred review
"This is a beautiful book. The instructions were precise and easy to follow. I can see this being on the book shelves and craft rooms of many who want to explore ALL the possibilities of crafting from the garden. What an undertaking to engage others to challenge creating beyond the vase!"
Teri Speight, author of Black Flora
“Joy rings from the pages of this book! Perusing it, my mind travels to the importance of Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium to her poetry and to the collected plant samples from which Margaret Stones generated her remarkable botanical paintings. At its core, Art from the Garden is an homage to nature as a source of inspiration for creative expression. The book’s exquisite imagery and thoughtful text demonstrate ways to interpret nature’s ephemeral materials and inert objects into enduring expressive works. There’s a powerful and promising message here: nature’s medium lies latent all around us; we have access to it when we cultivate our powers of observation; what we discover releases our imagination and compels us to represent some essential quality of what we have found.”
Douglas Reed, landscape architect

Kerry Michaels

About the Author

Kerry Michaels is a fine art and commercial photographer, writer, and multimedia producer living in Maine. She photographed the books Growing the Northeast Garden, The Proven Winners Garden Book, The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables, and A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers. Her photographs have been seen in Better Homes and Gardens, Down East magazine, Gardenista, Coastal Home magazine, and Coastal Design. She was the writer and photographer for an internationally popular website on container gardening. She coproduced and codirected the award-winning documentary film, River of Steel. Her scriptwriting credits include Sesame Workshop, Disney, Hearst New Media, and 20th Century with Mike Wallace.

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