European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunda scene stars and stripes Page 19 Garden arty artists Yard creations transform Home landscapes you cant say a Rusty old Auto Gardener would she she sought help a Long neglected farm implement or a random pile of from a Monotony landscape designer Sally scrap Metal have no Gardenar because in the hands of the right they could have a same for a reject dress shop a Tutu this will All make sense for lets Start at the and that would be the Garden part of the Gardenar the you might although one could certainly make an argument to the preparation of the gallery space comes that was the taken by Gardener and Metal artist Marieke one of the artists who been featured in the juried show at the Alaska botanical gardens annual Garden fair and Garden Art one of her pieces from last years show just sold to a Lodge in British Columbia a Gong made of a 4 Gill net reel and supported on Square steel Stock and a Railroad she Calls it tone but Heatwole considers herself a Gardener first and an artist she comes from a Long line of Horti including a Grandfather who has a Bonsai at the so when she left her Garden in Ketchikan and moved to Anchorage in it want so much that she and her husband bought a new House that came with a As the other Way the perennials were but she was used to gardening in Southeast to this Day i laugh when people say they have slug problems she they Are huge Down As big As my revolting Garden pests she could she just want sure How to overwinter her new and the orderliness of them threw the Beds had been created by a Gardener from Midwest farm although a lot of gardeners would appreciate the Shes not one of there were marching rows of delphiniums and she they were very so she did what any self respecting disobedient Sally just Shook her head and took my Garden Hose Ana Laid it out on the grounds in a snakelike pattern and this is your new Garden one of her key landscape design covenants is the thought of creating rooms in your Heatwole and what better Way to accentuate that than with some three dimension Al Art once Heatwole moved into her Garden rooms in a big i in so sentimental about my Garden and every thing in she definitely everything has a among favourites in her Garden gallery rooms is the first sculpture she Ever Heatwole accentuates her Garden room theory with her three dimensional in Hugh Mcpeeks sculpture class at the University of Alaska a study of a Louise Nevelson stylized in Metal and its 4feet 2feet wide and planted at the front of her House with a polestar Rose climbing All Over the reject dress shop fixture is its a two i Tensional outline of a woman in Quarter Inch steel Rod made As a mannequin for the out of the closet consignment Only the shoulders came but too Heatwole saw it on the Wall of her favorite machine fell for it and planted it in her sunny Patio Garden which brings us to the Shes working on a wearable Art piece made of Metal and As a study she ordered a the photos by Anchorage daily this Metal sculpture was a Model for an 8foot commissioned titled that artist Marieke Heatwole produced for an alaskan Heatwole says placement of Garden Art is kind a Prima Ballerina wears that stick straight out like a so the Broa shouldered mannequin is wearing the and the Tutu is wearing a Garden Art can be functional or used As an accent or a focal Heatwole As a focal it can lure people deeper into the or tempt them to turn a Shes also All about she she has two Garden Art pieces under construction both studies of each spire study 1 and spire study both Are columnar basal like one of hype Tufa a mix of Concrete and peat the other of scrap inspired by a friends new Garden that needs some placement is she dont plunk place your dont just Stab it into the it should be seated or nestled or perched in the her first Rule there Are no she one too much is too i would be broke if i bought everything i i would have no so in Selec Tive both for pocketbook and and people  think Garden Art has to be expensive or i probably have 15 things in my Garden but they Are they Are part of the some you Only see in the some Only in no Rule is my first i guess my Sec Heatwole coaxes sculptures from Copper and she considers herself Gardener first and in artist Ond Rule would be to love b n q