Honey Sharp is a photographer, writer, and landscape designer. Born in NYC, she also grew up in France, Switzerland and Lebanon. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she later studied cultural anthropology at Columbia University. Leaving the academic world behind, she moved to the Berkshires full-time and opened the Honey Sharp Gallery and Ganesh Café in Lenox, MA.
Inspired by her love of plants, nature and garden design, and a degree in horticulture, she launched Honey Sharp Garden Design in 2000. She also worked in free-lance writing both on art and gardens and contributed to publications on historical gardens such as Edith Wharton’s “The Mount” in Lenox, MA and Vita Sackville-West’s, “Sissinghurst” in England.
Back in 1997, with their three young children, she and her husband, David Lippman, embarked on a trip around the world while home schooling. The self-published book, “Nomads Five” tells their stories.
As her blog aka “Journal” reflects, travel continues to be a focus for her as a visual story-teller. Based part-time in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico since 2010, street photography became her passion. Her love of plants will never fade though.
“Through my camera lens and pen, I equally celebrate the natural and the human environment. Be it found in a market, a religious procession, a desert landscape, a beach — or my own backyard, I seek to focus on each moment as it unfolds.”
ABOUT
Credit: Ron Van Dyke
PUBLISHINGS ON HONEY’S GARDENS:
Great Gardens of the Berkshires by Virginia Small with photos by Rich Pomerantz (Down East Books, 2008)
The Golden Trowel Award, Garden Design Magazine (2001)
Yankee Magazine (2009)
