ABOUT From the summer's garden

From the Summer’s Garden provides a calm, restorative space filled with energizing color and clever handmade gifts expressing energy, boosting vitality and the celebration of life.

Our sales events promote real people using real materials, made with their own hands. We create an environment of discovery and delight for shoppers and promote creation through unique workshops and studios. Emotionally and psychologically, we provide simple relief, comfort and escape from the stresses of life, …we strive to be your happy place. 

  Steve is an art educator, passionate gardener, designer and sculptor living in Overland Park, KS.  He works in concrete, hypertufa and recycled handmade paper and has shared his products and gardens with area garden clubs for many years.  Steve gardens, creates and teaches regularly from his garden studio, From the Summer’s Garden, which continues to be a source for inspiration and raw materials in the joyful creation of fantastical, functional art for your garden and you. 

Steve also works as creative director for the Printery House of Conception Abbey creating greeting cards and gifts available in bookstores, through mail order and online shopping. He teaches Basic Design at Conception Seminary College.   

 
He balances this activity with creative development, design and production in his Overland Park studio with a staff of high school art students. From the Summer’s Garden offers unusual Studios and Creative Workshop experiences for people to make their own creations.  He likes to share ideas with people, showing them how to change their thinking about traditional garden décor to keep it fresh.  An avid gardener, he has appeared in Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, Country Gardens Magazine, was featured on PBS television’s “The Perennial Gardener,” and appeared on “Crafting Across America” on HGTV.