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Edward James Garden - Artists visiting and creating afterwards

Edward James Surreal Garden - This shows artists Della Burford, Dale Bertrand and Dancer Gloria Arroyo visiting and creating while visiting the garden. Dreams played an important part of all of this. After Della did a series of paintings in Puerto Vallarta of her feelings of being in La Pozas created by a man who was an eccentric poet and artist who was one of the patrons of Salvador Dali. When getting back home to Canada looked at the images and created a collage. In a prophetic dream the week before going to the garden saw a surreal collage of images related to the garden. By combining the paintings, photos and the morphing technique it creates a collage with all aspects merging and combining the arts of painting, dance, film and music. Just before leaving, in Guadalajara, had another dream before making the eleven hour grueling trip through winding Sierre Madre mountain roads into the jungle of town Xilitla in San Luis Potosi. Saw a man at a card table who said, “You are coming to meet the artist! To me it felt like Edward James himself and I was excited to be going the next day to the garden. I found him to be a very inspiring artist because he created a wonderful alternative reality for himself. Della Burford Edward James as well as being an eccentric poet and artist was Edward VII grandson. He sponsored and was friend and patron to various artists including Salvador Dali, Magritte and Stravinsky. He was living in Mexico and had of vision of a white light and hundreds of butterflies who landed. He felt afterwards he should create a garden in the jungle where he had the vision and give it to the people in the area. He thus created what is now known as the Edward James Garden or La Pozas.

Edward James Surreal Garden - This shows artists Della Burford, Dale Bertrand and Dancer Gloria Arroyo visiting and creating while visiting the garden. Dreams played an important part of all of this. After Della did a series of paintings in Puerto Vallarta of her feelings of being in La Pozas created by a man who was an eccentric poet and artist who was one of the patrons of Salvador Dali. Whe... More