{"id":10499,"date":"2025-04-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/?p=10499"},"modified":"2025-04-26T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:40:00","slug":"the-mushroom-garden-the-art-of-adam-oehlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/the-mushroom-garden-the-art-of-adam-oehlers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mushroom Garden: The Art of Adam Oehlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2:before,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2:after{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: table;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" ><div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_empty_space td_block_wrap vc_empty_space tdi_6 \"  style=\"height: 32px\"><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i><span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\">T<\/span>he<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Mushroom<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Garden<\/i><i> <\/i>really has to be seen to be believed. British artist Adam Oehlers both wrote and illustrated the mesmerizing tome over the course of five years, creating a surreal yet highly detailed, fully imagined world of a mushroom garden through which a character known as the Girl moves\u2014and sometimes is trapped\u2014during the changing seasons. The garden shifts in epic fashion. The mushrooms shrink, grow, multiply, rise like boulders, and release spores that soar through the air and wrap around her. It\u2019s like some kind of Wonderland (or Slumberland; I thought of Winsor McCay\u2019s Little Nemo often as well), teeming with mushrooms of every kind. It\u2019s all gorgeous and more than slightly mad\u2014in the best possible way, of course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">I asked Oehlers how the idea for the book came to him, and he explained that when he and his wife (the artist Nom Kinnear King) lived in the Norfolk countryside, they\u2019d often take long walks over Knettishall Heath. One afternoon they came upon a scene that struck a particular, magic chord: a tumble of fallen trees and branches covered entirely in a wide variety of mushrooms. \u201cI remember feeling as though we\u2019d stepped into a whole other world, a labyrinthine microcosm, and it utterly blew my mind,\u201d he says. The experience inspired him to create what was meant to be a one-off piece about a girl in a mushroom garden, but once he\u2019d finished that, he could not let the idea go. He kept wondering about the Girl and what had called her to the garden. To answer those questions for himself, he created a second artwork, and he just kept going. Which is how books come to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Research helped with inspiration. Oehlers has always loved mushrooms\u2014their come-hither looks, their connections to classic fairy tales and folklore\u2014but when he began studying them, their wild names sent his imagination spinning. \u201cThe girdled knights,\u201d he marvels, \u201cthe tawny grisettes, the deceivers, the funeral bells, the cavaliers \u2026 All those names painted such incredible pictures for me. They gave these mushrooms their own individual purposes, and the characters and world just started to grow.\u201d And it\u2019s still growing. Since <i>The<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Mushroom<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Garden<\/i>\u2019s release in 2021, Oehlers has been working on a second book that takes place in the same world, this time in the \u201cwilder lands that surround the Mushroom Garden.\u201d But of course he\u2019ll return to the garden itself, and we\u2019ll be there too, eager to step inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><i>See<\/i><i> <\/i><i>more<\/i><i> <\/i><i>of Adam<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Oehlers\u2019s<\/i><i> <\/i><i>work<\/i><i> <\/i><i>at<\/i><i> <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/adamoehlersillustration.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>adamoehlersillustration.com<\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><i>and<\/i><i> <\/i><i>find<\/i><i> <\/i><i>copies<\/i><i> <\/i><i>of<\/i><i> <\/i>The Mushroom Garden <i>at<\/i><i> <\/i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/nomadicalley.bigcartel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nomadicalley.bigcartel.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;10502&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;10504&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_cta h2=&#8221;Subscribe!&#8221; txt_align=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;flat&#8221; color=&#8221;grey&#8221; add_button=&#8221;bottom&#8221; btn_title=&#8221;Subscribe Today!&#8221; btn_style=&#8221;flat&#8221; btn_color=&#8221;mulled-wine&#8221; btn_align=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; btn_button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; btn_link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fenchantedlivingmag.com%2Fcollections%2Fsubscribe|target:_blank|rel:nofollow&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img data-dominant-color=\"5d7459\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #5d7459;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10436 size-medium aligncenter not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-231x300.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-231x300.avif 231w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-789x1024.avif 789w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-768x997.avif 768w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-1183x1536.avif 1183w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-1577x2048.avif 1577w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-323x420.avif 323w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-696x904.avif 696w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-1068x1387.avif 1068w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-1920x2493.avif 1920w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EL70_FinalCover-scaled.avif 1972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><i>Enchanted Living<\/i><\/em> is a quarterly print magazine that celebrates all things enchanted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Subscribe now and begin with our Mushroom<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/em><b style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/b><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">issue!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_cta]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_column_text css=\"\"] The Mushroom Garden really has to be seen to be believed. 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