Designed to celebrate the life and legacy of portraitist Thomas Gainsborough, the garden will be unveiled at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Sandringham Flower Show, taking place from July 22 to July 26.
It will also mark the start of next year’s tercentenary celebrations for the artist’s birth in 1727.
Frederic Whyte, the award-winning landscape designer behind the garden, said: “Thomas Gainsborough’s work explored the interface of art and nature: a great creative departure point for our garden at RHS Sandringham.
“Gainsborough’s sensitivity towards the landscape, colour and texture has informed the design throughout.
“The garden is a fitting celebration of the artist’s life and work and also serves as a timely reminder that gardens themselves are – or should be – works of art themselves.”
Inspired by Gainsborough’s evocative landscapes and the garden at Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury the design features a soft, painterly palette of pastel pinks and yellows.
Naturalistic plantings in greens and blues mirror the Suffolk countryside.
The overall scheme draws from some of his well-known portraits, including the Portrait of Countess Howe and The Hon. Mrs Graham.
Calvin Winner, director of Gainsborough’s House, added: “It’s hard to think of an artist more connected to his love of nature than Thomas Gainsborough.
“He spent his entire life wanting to paint landscapes and even when painting portraits, he would often frame sitters in a landscape or garden setting.
“His artistic imagination remained firmly rooted in his East Anglia childhood and the Suffolk landscape his art helped to define.
“Gainsborough’s House is grateful to Frederic Whyte for his wonderful garden design inspired by the historic garden at Gainsborough’s birthplace in Suffolk.”
In fitting style, when the RHS Sandringham Flower Show closes on July 26, elements of the garden will be repurposed in various locations or returned to supporters and nurseries.
