This extensive garden overlooking a bay in Seabright, NS was planted with lush grasses and swaths of native perennials. I created pools of light for night walks and entertaining throughout the garden.
Illuminating plants, sculptures and stairs with downlight, casts captivating shadows over the concrete & paths.
Landscape lighting guides the eye to a destination and highlights points of interest along the way. Mixing light sources creates a rich scene of colour & texture.
The lighting in a newly planted garden in Halifax' south end casts complext shadows on the front of the house.
Decorated for the holidays, the bare garden goes to sleep soon to be covered in a blanket of snow.
Just prior to completing the landscping, wiring and light fixtures are placed so they can be buried under sod & alongside hardscape.
Although young, the new plantings already add character to an otherwise empty scene. Lighting can create context out picture windows & invite visitors to explore.
Although the intent is to illuminate specimen plants and gardens, most clients benefit from the accidental effect of illuminating the 'borrowed view' of adjacent tree canopy.
Leafless, trees reveal their intricate structure, especially when illuminated by low-voltage led.
Sometimes i get the pleasure to retain, prune and highlight a feature tree on a property. Here the yard was extensively grubbed save this one liburnum, which i lit from belo as the showstopper the client never knew they had.
Even without its leaves the laburnum is stately, illuminated by two in-ground, shielded fixtures, an intersting feature looking from the inside the home.
This garden separates the office from the driveway, a green buffer by day...
Landscape lighting transforms the garden into a tranquil border and dramatic office view...
For this Lake Charles landscape, the lighting casts subtle highlights on the structures and plants just as the sun starts to set.
Approximately 30 spot & inground lights were used to illuminate the terraces of this lakeside landscape.
By the time darkness falls, your eyes wilkl have adjusted to the illuminated textures throughout the garden staircase.
I designed the boathouse to have a wetbar & seasonal kitchen, the access lit by bounced light from the granite retaining wall & spill from uplighting the nearby speciment, a variegated 'First Ghost' Japanese Maple.
I achieved this romantic effect by downlighting the edges of the stone staircase & uplit the ornamental grasses to create a soft spill of colour & texture.
The top of the stone staircase is a bit brighter as you approach the house; adjusting lighht levels is critical to prevent high contrast glare.
The evening view down to the boathouse & lake evokes the mystery of a moonlit walk & chiaroscuro of a rich tapestry of plants in the dark.
Unlit, the driveway planting bed has little to show for all the textures it contains.
Illuminated, the driveway bed reveals the stunning boulders and plant forms installed just weeks prior. As the plantings mature, light will become softer and more diffused.
A break from landscaping, i work with a local choir & music studio producing shows. I took reference for this Kaliedascope Cabaret from art deco jewellery & drapery.
Production designing Winter Dream has been a wonderful foray back into theater. Designing & constructing these set pieces form the bases for a sparkly & bright holiday variety show.
Illuminating mature forests considers carefully chosen & placed fixtures. This Hammonds Plains home was lit with only a few strong spots to highlight the complex branching of magnolia & rich rhodos along the property edge.
Native and ornamental trees are featured in the forest while a large rhodo is backlit for variety.
Landscape lighting reveals subtle variations in this border garden, highlighting the cumulus contrast of plant textures.
Experimenting with lighting placement, two spots were placed directly below this collection of ornamental & native trees.
Ace fixtures by InLite were placed around the hardscape after hardscape was installed but before final landscping so that all the wires could be buried.
Landscape lighting starts with the natural ambiance. Low voltage lighting is set to turn on just before sunset for a seemless transition.
Starting off small, plants quickly take on maturity giving gardens structure, defining areas.
The glow of twighlight is a perfect time for landscape lighting to define borders and create enclosure for intimate spaces.
I set discrete uplighting in this side bed highlighting robust blooms & charming sculpture.
I illuminated the grand oak tree & feature swing from below and above to create a moonlight effect in the front yard.
To showcase the newly-planted garden spot & in-ground fixtures were placed throughout. As the garden matures, the lighting will become more diffused and plant forms more nuanced.
Landscape lighting creates mystery, elegance & richness of form & texture.... in this bed, a buffer between driveway & event bar, light dances through the soft forms of grasses, shrubs and evergreens.
Rarely do I get to see what my landscape lighting installations look like in winter because of travelling in these remote locations. This extensive Bishopville renovation included illuminating the back of the house.
Snowy scene from the clients pov on a ski back from the woods toward the warm glow of their ranch, a heartearming photo.
I uplit and downlit this boardwalk so that focus and fall-off of light folds across the structure & filters through the woodland.
Fall is a great time to set a lighting array in. You get to see the dramatic structure of trees along a forest edge.
Positioning a fixture is a subtle science; evergreens and deciduous trees illuminate differently with the former reflecting and latter absorbing light.
Illuminating scales of branching set agains a dark background creates a dramatic effect.
A solostove enjoyed on the patio that overlooks the illuminated forest of Ponhook lake.