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310 Masters of Landscape Lighting GARDEN SPARK LTD SUSSEX, ENGLAND Daylight reveals everything indiscriminately, while darkness allows us to decide what is revealed and what remains unseen. Mark Packham, founder of Garden Spark, approaches garden and landscape lighting as an artistic discipline, capable of producing a profound and lasting emotional response from his ever-growing list of clients across the southeast of England. Drawing on years of experience and working alongside leading international lighting designers, he establishes a clear hierarchy of light for each composition. The result is a subliminal sense of calm and happiness from an emotionally uplifting space. The night gardens he creates rely on carefully concealed light sources, allowing a garden's most beautiful elements to take center stage, creating a sense of quiet, timeless elegance. ABOVE: The Ian Edwards Sculpture Garden. 'The Calling' and 'The Root Within' pieces, by the celebrated English sculptor Ian Edwards, are lit with extreme restraint. Very low light levels are amplified by the darkness of the surrounding sky and trees, while gentle grazing reveals the bronze's texture. Within the visual hierarchy, the figures read as primary, the ever-changing ambient night sky luminance secondary, and hedging and tree canopy are intentionally left unlit. FACING PAGE: The Jay Robin's Rose Garden at Borde Hill, designed by Royal Horticultural Society gold medal-winning garden designer Robin Williams, sits alongside the Grade II listed Elizabethan mansion, built in 1598. A subtly illuminated water feature and sculpture of Aphrodite, added in 2020, form a focal point. Lighting is deliberately restrained, with concealed sources revealing roses, structural topiary, and a wide array of complementing features, while the main house's chimneys, though part of the composition, remain the least bright architectural elements visible. Photography by Mark Packham