Leland Miyano
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Leland Miyano is an artist, landscape designer and author born and raised in Hawai'i. He received his Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
His books include A Pocket Guide to Hawai'i's Flowers (Mutual, 1997), Hawai'i's Beautiful Trees, (Mutual, 1997) and with Douglas Peebles, Hawaii: A Floral Paradise (Mutual 1995).
In the field of landscape design, Miyano designed his own 1 acres (4,046.9 m²) Kahalu’u garden, featured in Martha Stewart Living, and some of the gardens at The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. He is a protégé of internationally known Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx
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Miyano's work explores man's relationship to nature. Renowned artist Isamu Noguchi
encouraged his stone sculpture work and led him from ceramics to the use of volcanic basalt from the local area. Miyano is working on a series of large basalt sculptures destined for the Judiciary Building at Kapolei.
Miyano received the 2008 Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts
from the Honolulu Academy of Arts
, resulting in his one-person exhibition, Historia: Naturalia et Artificialia. His work reflects cycles of regeneration in nature and environmental issues.
The poet W.S. Merwin writes of him, "Those of us who know him have been aware for years that Leland is a true original, a living treasure among us, and it is fortunate for all of us that his sculpture, with its representations of the irreplaceable life of these islands, is receiving some of the attention and honor it deserves."
His books include A Pocket Guide to Hawai'i's Flowers (Mutual, 1997), Hawai'i's Beautiful Trees, (Mutual, 1997) and with Douglas Peebles, Hawaii: A Floral Paradise (Mutual 1995).
In the field of landscape design, Miyano designed his own 1 acres (4,046.9 m²) Kahalu’u garden, featured in Martha Stewart Living, and some of the gardens at The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. He is a protégé of internationally known Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx
Roberto Burle Marx
Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape architect whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil...
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Miyano's work explores man's relationship to nature. Renowned artist Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...
encouraged his stone sculpture work and led him from ceramics to the use of volcanic basalt from the local area. Miyano is working on a series of large basalt sculptures destined for the Judiciary Building at Kapolei.
Miyano received the 2008 Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts
Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts
The Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts is a biannual award given to a visual artist who either lives in Hawaii or was born in Hawaii. The recipient may work in any medium, and is honored with a solo exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The award was established in...
from the Honolulu Academy of Arts
Honolulu Academy of Arts
The Honolulu Academy of Arts is an art museum in Honolulu in the state of Hawaii. Since its founding in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke and opening April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to over 40,000 works of art.-Description:...
, resulting in his one-person exhibition, Historia: Naturalia et Artificialia. His work reflects cycles of regeneration in nature and environmental issues.
The poet W.S. Merwin writes of him, "Those of us who know him have been aware for years that Leland is a true original, a living treasure among us, and it is fortunate for all of us that his sculpture, with its representations of the irreplaceable life of these islands, is receiving some of the attention and honor it deserves."