LANDART, From Acadia to Zen took 10 years to produce from over 35 years of work. It is an astonishing 260 pages of photographs, text, sketches and technical information illustrating the vast experience of Riddell’s incredible career.

Bruce John Riddell received his undergraduate degree from the University of Maine and a master of landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. After he graduated from Penn, he worked for over eight years with the landscape architecture firm Oehme, van Sweden and Associates in Washington, D.C. While there, he participated in renowned projects such as the National Zoo, National Arboretum, International Chancery Center, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Headquarters, and Nelson A. Rockefeller Park at Battery Park City in New York City, as well as a variety of residential estate gardens throughout the country.

Locally, Bruce designed several public gardens, including many of the feature gardens at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. He has designed and constructed LandART for private homes throughout Maine. His gardens typically combine native and naturalized plantings with site-specific furnishings that he designs himself, including custom gates, lights, fountains, stonework, metalwork and sculptures. His signature garden environments and outdoor rooms have been described as having a “Japanese design ethic with a Celtic sensibility.”