Derek Jarman's garden is in the flat expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness, Kent. He mixed the flint, shells and driftwood of Dungeness with indigenous and introduced plants. This book is his own record of how this garden evolved, from its beginnings in 1985.
Presents the author's own record of how a garden evolved in Dungeness nuclear power station, from its earliest beginnings in 1986 to the last year of his life. This book features more than 150 photographs that capture the garden in all its different stages and at every season of the year, revealing its complex geometrical plan.
In 1986 the controversial film-maker Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive, and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the bleak coast of Dungeness, where he also wrote these journals. They look back over his childhood, his coming out in the 1960s and his cinema career.
This autobiography, taken from his diaries of 1991-94, interweaves Jarman's harrowing account of physical decline and failing eyesight with wonderfully poetic and detailed descriptions of the changing seasons of Dungeness, his meetings with Tennant, Freud and others, his thoughts on his sex life and his love for his boyfriend.
A meditation on the colour spectrum by the painter, poet and film-maker, Derek Jarman. He explains the use of colour in medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists. It also discusses the meaning of colour in literature, science, philosophy, psychology, religion and alchemy.