Marches Japanese Garden

The Marches Japanese Garden: Where the Whale Talks to the Stars
Photography & Garden
Photography & Garden

Artists Exhibiting at Marches Japanese Garden

Details

h.Art map reference:

59

Address:

Where the Whale Talks to the Stars
14 Floodgates
Kington
HR5 3NE

What3Words:

poetry.sharper.corded

Directions:

Please park along Montford Rd, not in cul de sac, not on junction.

Special Events

Haiku Reading by John Rux-Burton

Poems charting a year in a Japanese garden

Event Date
5th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
5th September 2026, 12:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

Green tea tastings in the pagoda

Matcha cake and plant sale and at The Marches Japanese Garden. Pop-up event and secret guest details:

Event Date
5th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
5th September 2026, 17:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Green tea tastings in the pagoda

‘Why has that stream got no water in it?’

Garden tour/introduction to Japanese aesthetic, exploring the ideas behind gardening in Japan, one of the world’s oldest art forms.

Event Date
5th September 2026, 15:00
Event End Date
5th September 2026, 16:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

Second Life

A tour of the garden focusing on the extraordinary plants from across the UK, saved from destruction in a new home in the Welsh Marches

Event Date
6th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
6th September 2026, 12:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Free
Event Type
Talk

Inkwash in the digital age

Artist Elliot Rux-Burton talks about how he paints digitally in one of the world’s oldest painting styles. Details on website.

Event Date
6th September 2026, 15:00
Event End Date
6th September 2026, 16:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

Talk ‘Of cursi and circuses’

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

Event Date
7th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
7th September 2026, 12:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

Pareidolia in Art

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

Event Date
7th September 2026, 15:00
Event End Date
7th September 2026, 16:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

Japanese Planting

Master Gardener Justin Lloyd; a tour of the garden and talks about the plant choices made to make the garden authentic but unique.

Event Date
8th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
8th September 2026, 12:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Workshop

Green tea tastings in the pagoda

Matcha cake and plant sale and at The Marches Japanese Garden. Pop-up event and secret guest details:

Event Date
9th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
9th September 2026, 17:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Green tea tastings in the pagoda

Symbolism in art

A tour of garden, images & poems; how multiple readings that provoke questions can be more interesting than definitive statements.

Event Date
9th September 2026, 15:00
Event End Date
9th September 2026, 16:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

Japanese Pruning and Shaping

Master Gardener Justin Lloyd; tour of the garden and talks about how the plants are being gradually formed to extenuate beauty & space.

Event Date
10th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
10th September 2026, 12:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

Haiku Reading by John Rux-Burton

Poems charting a year in a Japanese garden.

Event Date
10th September 2026, 15:00
Event End Date
10th September 2026, 16:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Workshop

Green tea tastings in the pagoda

Matcha cake and plant sale and at The Marches Japanese Garden. Pop-up event and secret guest details:

Event Date
11th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
11th September 2026, 17:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Green tea tastings in the pagoda

‘The Night above the Dingle Starry’

The Welsh Marches is where the ‘cradled night’ was born. Talk with readings; charting our changing perception of Night.

Event Date
11th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
11th September 2026, 12:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

A Sense of Place-John Rux-Burton

Photographer & Author with readings and images, talks about his forthcoming book on images where great landscape poems were written.

Event Date
11th September 2026, 15:00
Event End Date
11th September 2026, 16:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Workshop

Green tea tastings in the pagoda

Matcha cake and plant sale and at The Marches Japanese Garden. Pop-up event and secret guest details:

Event Date
12th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
12th September 2026, 17:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Green tea tastings in the pagoda

Hail Twilight!

How a photograph led John Rux-Burton to the story of Wordsworth in Radnorshire and his discovery of his Hindwell cycle of poems.

Event Date
12th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
12th September 2026, 17:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

‘Mitate Mono’ - Things Re-seen Tour

Creating a Japanese garden where beauty comes from the discarded, not simply re-using but elevating objects to new and beautiful uses.

Event Date
12th September 2026, 15:00
Event End Date
12th September 2026, 16:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

Green tea tastings in the pagoda

Matcha cake and plant sale and at The Marches Japanese Garden. Pop-up event and secret guest details

Event Date
13th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
13th September 2026, 17:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Green tea tastings in the pagoda

Pareidolia in Art

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

Event Date
13th September 2026, 11:00
Event End Date
13th September 2026, 12:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk

Second Life

A tour of the garden focusing on the extraordinary plants from across the UK, saved from destruction in a new home in the Welsh Marches

Event Date
13th September 2026, 15:00
Event End Date
13th September 2026, 16:00
Booking Required
Yes
Booking Contact
Walk in's welcome
Booking Email
contact@johnruxburton.co.uk
Booking Link
https://www.johnruxburton.co.uk/h-art
Entry Type
Donation
Entry Fee
Free
Event Type
Talk
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