Artist's Gardens

The Gardens of Jacques Majorelle

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Laïla dans le Jardin Jacques Majorelle

“Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.”

- Sir Walter Scott

Our fascination with the gardens created by artists is sparked anew each year with the summer planting season. Artists’ gardens are an essential part of their creators’ expressions, unable to be separated from their other words of art —woven together in one artistic vision.

One artist for whom this seamless blending can be easily seen is Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962). Majorelle was born in Nancy, France, the son of a well-known Art Nouveau furniture designer, Louis Majorelle. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Beaux Arts in 1908. But it was after exploring countries outside of France that Majorelle found and fell in love with Marrakech, settling there for the rest of his life.

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