Saint John’s Dominick Park
“Art of the Land was masterful in integrating a 13th century feature into a contemporary design for a plaza that serves as the entry way to a gothic-style cathedral.  The...
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Applewood Hillside Terrace
Award of Excellence 2011 ALCC Composite decking with a new airy pergola above replaced an aging wood deck and low overhead cover. The deteriorated railroad tie retaining walls were removed, and...
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Lakewood Garden House
Xeriscape Honor Roll, Denver Water Department 2001 This Lakewood residence was typical of the post-war suburban style of the 1950s–all lawn and pfitzers. Our design solution introduced semi-arid Rocky Mountain...
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Estes Park Mountain View
This Estes Park site is in a broad open valley, exposed to winter winds. The primary concern was creating windbreaks to control snowdrifts and screen off neighboring houses. Large, sculpted...
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Denver Steele Street
Small, separated lawn areas, old concrete walkways, broken-up patio, and sagging aluminum patio cover prevented enjoyment of the area, and was used mainly by the family dog and for general...
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Cherry Creek Courtyard
This contemporary urban courtyard had serious storm drainage problems. Drainage pipes were laid to carry the runoff away from the building. Brick pavers were selected to match the existing architecture...
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Renovations
“Nancy and ‘Art of the Land’ have done outstanding and creative landscaping for my home on two different occasions turning my landscape from the mundane into a pleasure to enjoy...
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Genesee Golden
Forty tons of granite moss rock were added to form the dry waterscape that descends through the natural rock formations, appearing to having always been there....
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Wheat Ridge Rural
“Excellence in Landscape Merit Award 2003 ALCC” This Wheat Ridge home is in a hilly well-established neighborhood with a backyard abruptly sloping down to a large pond. There were problems...
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Washington Park
This Washington Park bungalow needed a pleasant path from the front to the backyard. A cottage garden pathway was constructed of irregularly placed flagstones, along with lush, shade-loving plants. A...
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Denver Victorian Stonewall
Flagstone sidewalks and retaining walls line the street of this Victorian neighborhood. A curving flagstone stairway, set into a steep slope, leads to the front entry. Framing the entry and...
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Lakewood Madsens
An old suburban weed-infested, dog-damaged backyard lawn with overgrown shrubs was transformed into an expanse of crushed rock and groupings of moss rock boulders, grasses and perennials. A naturalistic water...
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Denver Sunset Terrace
“Excellence in Landscape Merit Award 2002 ALCC” “We wanted to change what was once a side yard used as a soccer field to an intimate place of enjoyment for children,...
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Wheat Ridge Mayfield Patio
An existing patio was extended to provide a larger area for relaxation and family activities. Flagstone was laid over the concrete slab with a low sitting stone wall on one...
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Genesee Streambed
This internationally-known, contemporary residence is characterized by extensive moss rock walls. A dry streambed was built into an existing natural drainage pathway to simulate a steep mountain cascade. Boulders create...
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Bonnie Brae Contemporary
“Nancy provided us with a top-notch landscape design for our new house. She was willing to research some complicated elements and did a good job of overseeing all the design...
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Arapahoe Acres MId-Century
The contemporary housing district of Arapahoe Acres is a 1950s development on the National register of Historic...
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Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach is a gnarled, plains cottonwood stump, with rusted metal and non-toxic paint. It suggests the appearance of sea coral to remind us of the fragileness of the ocean...
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Abandoned Metal
Abandoned Metal, made from found metal, was assembled, welded, caulked and...
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Agriculture Metal
Abandoned farming equipment is symbolic for all that has happened and will happen to the land. Traditional Japanese papermaking methods of Kozo fiber and flax were used. A surface luster...
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Prairie
Saguaro Cactus is a paper assemblage of a letterpress digital image, hand-colored with pencil. Lost Lake Ice is made of Asian and Western handmade paper, expressing ice movement, shrinking and...
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High Plains
Bird Shelters are made from red and yellow dogwood branches wired together to provide cover for birds and small animals. High Spirit is made of dogwood, willow, and viburnum woven...
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Crop Fields
The corn fields of Iowa are known for their rich, black soil and a way of life. Sheets of flax and Abaca fiber were made with Western papermaking techniques. The...
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My Sacred Land
This handmade paper is about the natural pathway to be followed through one’s inner landscape. Sheets of Kozo fiber were made with a Japanese traditional mould and su, laminated, embedded...
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