About
Nature as Art
Gay Goessling is a trained Landscape Architect in St. Louis, Missouri. She is also an Environmental Artist and Healing Garden Specialist. She has employed over 25 years of experience to create spaces that delight the senses and are enhanced with time. Her award winning residential designs range in scale from small gardens to vast estates that require master planning.
Her philosophy of Nature as Art draws on ancient and indigenous cultures that use the earth for its inspiration. These people were and are in a constant dance with nature and the world around them. There is a need to reconnect with the natural world, an anchor that will let us bring more ephemeral discoveries back into our lives. Her sculptures and healing gardens are microcosms of the natural world.
The environmental sculptures reconnect with nature in a playful and light hearted manner where one individual or many can participate within a defined space.
Gay finds the definition of space very important. By defining the space, the sculpture becomes a pleasant surprise, creating an air of magic when someone happens upon it and takes one into a different world, space, and time, somewhere in the future or in the past. Incorporated into these designed sculptures and healing gardens are light, color, texture, sound and fragrance, thus the earth becomes alive and undulates with patterns.Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.
The Song of the Flower - Watercolor Prints
The Song of the Flower is the sacred geometric signature each flower transmits outwardly to reconnect us with ourselves. With the help of each flower, Gay Goessling, artist, identifies and paints watercolor flower mandalas that transmit these signatures. Please take a look.
Selected Press
Reviving A Georgian-Style In St. Louis
Gardening with Gay Goessling
Seyfried, Jenny. Seasons Magazine, Spring 2010Back to Nature
Figueras, Ligaya. Back to Nature, April 2009Sub-Rosa
Paul, Janice. Sub Rosa. February 2008St. Louis Magazine at Home, Nov/Dec 2009,"At Home Arcitect & Design Awards 2009",pp.35-36.
Art Calender, April 2009, "Back to Nature", pp.18-19.
St. Louis Magazine at Home, Mar/Apr 2008, "Sub Rosa" pp.97-100
St. Louis Magazine at Home, May/June 2007,"Laying Out the Land" p. 71
St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, March 2005,"On Perfection".
St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, May 2003,"Gorgeous Goergian"pp.32-39.
St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, March 2001,Splendor in the Grass" pp.30-33.
St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, March 2000,"Deborah's Marvel" pp.42-45.
St. Louis Post Dispatch, October 21, 2000,"Professional Panache is Evident in Area Landscaping",pp. 20L-21L.
Landscape Architect and Specifier News, "Gay Goessling, Gardens That Delight The Eye" pp.82-85.
St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles,Fall, 1998,,"How to Redesign your Garden", pp.76-77.
St. Louis Post Dispatch, July 25, 1998, "Amateur's Passion and a Master's Touch" p.18L-19L. Garden Contest Winner
St. Louis Season's,Fall, 1997,"Barvarian Splendor",pp.22-28.Garden Design, June| July 1996,"When to Go Pro",pp.48-49.