My mum took inspiration from Derek Jarman's garden when she was ill. Here's how it's done the same for many others

“A garden locates you in eternity“ Derek Jarman Prospect Cottage in Dungeness England has been saved via: NYT / Full article here

Wild, honest, riotous, the film-maker’s diary showed me what it meant to be an artist, to be political – and how to plant a garden

In the otherworldly landscape of Dungeness paradise haunts Derek Jarman's Garden as immortalised in his last book and still flourishing decades later.

The isolated fisherman’s shack made famous by the acclaimed film-maker and artist Derek Jarman has been saved for the nation.More than 7,000 people contributed to the £3.5 million appeal to prevent the cottage being sold to a private buyer. They included the artists David Hockney, Peter Doig and T

A beginner’s path through the passionate, iconoclastic films of British maverick Derek Jarman.

Derek Jarman (1942-1994), the English film maker, writer and painter at his studio in the Gorballs, Glasgow c1990 with some of "the most awful paintings he could make". Angry, violent work that raged against his fate. Keith Collins was filming Derek and his visitors that day who included Tilda Swinton.

Campaign secures future of Prospect Cottage, a place of pilgrimage for devotees of artist

In his latter years, the film-maker, artist, diarist and writer Derek Jarman bought a small cottage on the shingle beach at Dungeness, in south-east England. It was a place of respite, a studio where he could write and paint, and a setting in which he created a beautiful garden amid the harsh, sea-lashed landscape. Jarman first saw Prospect Cottage “on a springtime drive through Kent for a bluebell wood to Super-8 for the film which would become The Garden” in 1986. His partner, Keith Collins (HB) described the discovery of the cottage in the preface to Derek Jarman’s Garden: Derek suggested eating at the Pilot Inn, Dungeness—renowned for serving ‘Simply the finest fish and chips in all England’. Charmed by the landscape, we decided to visit the old lighthouse. Derek said: ‘There’s a beautiful fisherman’s cottage here, and if ever it was for sale, I think I’d buy it.’ As we neared the cottage, black varnished with bright yellow window frames, we saw the green-and-white ‘For Sale’ sign—the improbability of it made the purchase inescapable. Jarman described the cottage in his collected journals Modern Nature: Prospect Cottage, its timbers black with pitch, stands on...

A campaign to save the beloved house and garden of a visionary artist has reached its fundraising goal.

In 1986, English film director Derek Jarman was diagnosed with AIDS. He moved to a little cottage at Dungeness on the shore of Kent, in th...

The film-maker’s Prospect Cottage and inspirational garden on the Kent shingle should be preserved for future generations

The space around this modest cottage in Dungeness, Kent, the former home of the multitalented filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994), could be considered one o

If you wanted to seem sophisticated in the 1980s, you went to see a Derek Jarman film – and his 1986 biopic of the baroque painter Caravaggio was a landmark in his recognition as a major director.

With their snippets of poetry, drawings, film storyboards, thoughts, plans and photographs, Derek Jarman's sketchbooks offer a rare insight into an artist's mind at work

Discover the story of Derek Jarman’s garden at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness in the first exhibition to explore the role of the garden in his life and work.

To kick off year-long celebrations of the life and work of film director Derek Jarman on the 20th anniversary of his death, Neil Bartlett explains why he will be holding an all-night party-vigil in King's College London's chapel

Douglas Fogle on Derek Jarman’s imperiled Prospect Cottage

Surprisingly it was porn that first brought me to Derek Jarman. Idly browsing through the pages of the soft core magazine 'Cinema Blue', one summer's afternoon in the late 1970s, I was struck by a photo-spread on a what seemed to be a toga-and-orgy film called 'Sebastiane'.

Caravaggio’s revolutionary style influenced everyone from modern photographers to Scorsese – but his life was just as provocative as his paintings, writes Alastair Sooke.

What role could gardens play in a sustainable future? And what can they tell us about history? Vitra Design Museum introduces artists addressing this question.

Derek Jarman became a filmmaker by accident. He was originally a painter, an artist who started making home movies with friends at his Bankside home in London. These Super-8 films slowly evolved into movies and one of the most exciting, original and provocative filmmakers since Ken Russell arrived. During a seventeen-year career, Jarman made eleven feature films—from the Latin and sand romp Sebastiane through his punk movie Jubilee (1978) to Caravaggio (1986) and the final one color movie Blue. During all of this time, the artist, director, writer, gardener and diarist painted. Jarman was a student the Slade School of Art in the 1960s where he was taught—like everyone else—to be an “individual.” Jarman felt he was already managing that quite well in that department without being told how. He left art school and worked as a set designer with Ken Russell—most spectacularly on The Devils in 1971 and then Savage Messiah in 1973. His painting career splits into different sections; his early work reflected his interest in landscape, form, and color—something which would recur in his films—his later work reflecting his more personal experience. However, as he began making films Jarman shifted from using paint to...