Reflecting over the past year or so – things are really picking up. Hooray!
Two weeks ago I installed another private courtyard garden commission – relating to the landscape and beautiful setting of the coastal village of Robin Hoods Bay – Rise, very pleasing as they love it! And on the same day I resited a piece from the Sculpture Garden up to newly opened The Rathwaite Hall 5* Hotel which lies in an incredible setting within a valley and newly restored historic gardens on the Whitby to Sandsend road. Special thanks to their incredibly helpful Master Gardener Steve Little. The piece, Half Eternal is quite statuesque from the huge balcony but looks much further away in photos..
Two weeks later and I’ve been recovering from a serious bad back with two days almost completely immobile.
Well I’m back and need to get back into the studio to complete another private commission –Fold. For a beautiful hidden hill garden here in Scarborough on the South Cliff. Slight drawback is that the plinth is already installed (not ideal) and is Victorian in style.. There was quite a lot of huffing and puffing during the designing but all being well it should be fired and making the lady happy in the next two weeks.
To cap that, I was approached in the summer to make a double height piece for Scarborough Hospital Maple Garden. A new garden for the enjoyment and relaxation of patients and their families as well as hospital staff on their breaks and a place where people can talk and breathe in some fresh air that flows down from the vale of Scarborough and the hill tops of Raincliffe Woods. The designs are nearly complete and I should be able to begin that next week, all being well! The working title is Flow or Ebb and Flow, it refers to the tides but also the human energy and the natural change of seasons. How often do we moan about having the wrong weather? Stuff happens – if we tune into ourselves and the natural rythms and cycles of the earth, a great deal of stress might be avoided. Note to self: stop resisting and let go! The trees aren’t sad when autumn comes… Thiswork to be installed before Xmas!
I have also taken on a large scale series of 5 mosaics for Gladstone Rd Infant School here in Scarborough. The primary of which I attended when I first arrived in the town aged 9.
I think there may be another project blog about to start for this as this one? Well it’s for the clay work. My true love.
