Barbara Hepworth
Sculpture Garden
For the last 25 years of her life, Barbara Hepworth lived and worked in a
small studio in St
Ives. She kept many of the casts of her bronzes, as well as a few original
pieces in her exquisite garden, and this has been kept as a quiet, discrete
and utterly lovely museum in the back streets of St Ives. I first went there
almost 20 years ago, and it converted me to abstract sculpture. The garden
is charming, as are the buildings and her sculptures. it is such a
better place to see her work than any museum. If you ever get the chance, do
try and visit.
Her work is entirely abstract, and she is emphatic that one should give
them no concrete descriptions.
This picture is taken in a little conservatory, smelling of jasmine and
filled with exotic cacti.
She died at the studio in a fire, and much of the museum retains the
state of things as she left them.
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