Honey Sharp is a photographer, writer, landscape designer and former art gallery owner. Born in NYC, she 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 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 while becoming a Master Gardener.

For years, she worked in free-lance writing both on art and gardens. She also 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, but no longer in print, book, “Nomads Five” tells their stories. She is currently working on a book on San Miguel de Allende.

As her blog aka “Journal” reflects, travel has become a major focus for her as a visual story-teller. Based part-time in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico since 2010, she got hooked onto street photography without forgoing her love for nature photography.

“Through my camera lens and pen, I celebrate both the natural and the human world. Be it in a mercado, a religious procession, a desert landscape — or my own backyard, I seek to focus on each moment as it unfolds.”

ABOUT

Credit: Ron Van Dyke

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)