Dana Westring is an artist, working around the world, and a garden designer, working mainly in northern Virginia. He created Poke Gardens in Marshall, Virginia, which has been featured in several books on garden design. In the last twenty years, his artwork has focused primarily on drawings and watercolors of landscapes—especially of the coast of Maine at Prouts Neck—and sacred architecture in Southeast Asia, where he has been working on studies of Hindu temples.
Poke Gardens
“We bought a small property 35 years ago in Virginia. It was a weekend retreat with a little house in the woods on a hill overlooking a valley and the remains of a little vegetable garden. I began thinking about a landscape. As a total amateur, I began carving pieces of the property into a garden. It evolved organically, with the construction of stone retaining walls and steps to negotiate the natural slope of the ground.”
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