Brookside Gardens – Art in the Garden

Art is part of our mission! We are proud to support local artists through rotating monthly art exhibits at the Visitor Center. Many of the art pieces showcased in exhibits are for sale. Our exhibit schedule is currently booked through the end of 2026. We are not currently accepting applications for future art exhibits.

Watercolors on Wee Hours

Artist: Alexis Dominique Cortel Limpiado

Alex has been in love with watercolors since 2021. Alex has been a full time watercolorist and muralist for almost three years. From the Philippines, Alex moved to the U.S. in 2023 and is now based in Maryland.

Growing up, Alex always found joy in the arts, joining art clubs and summer art classes. These experiences gave her a good foundation in the basics of drawing.

Alex has a degree in Fine Arts, major in Advertising Arts which led her to becoming a graphic artists for 10 years. She rekindled her love for traditional art after losing her job during the pandemic. Throughout those long months of quarantine, she painted everyday up until now. She also found out that her late cate, Harper, relaxed and settled down when she was painting in the wee hours. He would watch with so much interest and the usual zoomies were gone, so she tends to paint till the late night to help both Harper and her relax.

Alex’s main medium is watercolor with a focus on floras/botanicals. She started with loose florals and it soon developed into a much more detailed work when she incorporated comprehensive, but light sketching into her process. Her work’s goal is to capture the depth and delicate charm of each floral piece.

Artist: Margaret Rose Hahn

After retiring in 2016 from a career in professional Theater and Arts Management, Margaret Rose Hahn began pursuing a long held desire to follow in her father’s footsteps (a professional architect and watercolorist) by learning how to draw. She began studying drawing in 2018 at the Yellow Barn Studio learning basic drawing techniques with graphite pencils and charcoal rendering a variety of subjects. In 2020, inspired by botanical artist and illustrator, Wendy Hollander, she began drawing botanical subjects with colored pencils and watercolor pencils. She continues to study in person and online with Wendy Hollander at Draw Botanical as well as British botanical portrait artist, Ann Swan.

She is a member or the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) and its local chapter, The Botanical Art Society of the National Capital Region (BANSCR). She has participated in the annual Chevy Chase Art Walk since 2023 and you can visit her studio at this year’s CH/Art Walk in October 2026.

To learn more, visit her website: Margaret Rose Hahn