Garden experiments in formal neglect.
Garden Solitaire was an experimental landscape laboratory/outdoor studio of about one acre in Nottinghamshire. It began life as a formal garden but became a partially wooded site overtaken by trees and scrub, and then managed as a liminal place between garden and tree wilderness.
Many of the works at Garden Solitaire followed Eva Hesse's maxim: "How to make without making". Ideas concerning formal wilderness were first explored here, using trees and encompassing neglect, and the an-aesthetic of plastic furniture.
A short essay on this project can be found here
Fruit garden.
FOUNT (with missal-Damson grove) (detail) 2010-2015. Water, trough (wood, aluminium), missal (tarpaulin), woodpile, damson, lime, ivy.
FOUNT (with missal-Damson grove) 2010-2015. Water, trough (wood, aluminium), missal (tarpaulin), woodpile, damson, lime, ivy.
III WAYS IN 2005- . Box, lawn, apple, willow, ivy, yew.
