‘Fences can be the source of bitter arguments between neighbours, and there are often special laws to deal with these problems. Common disagreements include what kind of fence is required, what kind of repairs are needed, and how to share the costs.’
Tag Archive: land art
I love land art. You can often see it in protected landscapes or the grounds of important buildings. Sometimes, more riskily, it can be found in the open landscape, where it can make a wonderful contribution to an overall scene, aid interpretation of a place or maybe even just define a space that would otherwise be unremarkable.
I feel this way about wind turbines- I know that having them placed up against your plot might be a pain. Their numbers, groupings and locations do need careful thought, but I think we should embrace them more as potentially positive additions to our landscape (as well as out at sea). Rather than try to ‘hide’ them by leaving them creamy white, why not make more of them as land art – a clever paint job or perhaps adding some whimsical ornamentation could actually make them something we look forward to seeing.
Coming back to earth, or rather back to the garden, what about land art in a more domestic setting?
In my opinion, a lot of ‘off the shelf’ garden sculptures and other ‘features’ are just plain dull and many others too sickly sweet or twee to be given house room- or should I say garden room. We also sometimes place small, insignificant items in our gardens which are out of proportion and are soon ‘lost’. We really ought to be thinking big(ger).
Well, enough of my Monday rant, here are a few examples of some superb pieces of land/garden art in stone. What do you think of them and what about more land art in gardens?
- Stony stream
- Ammeer 146
- Eye of the Storm by Johnny Clasper
- Natural Stone mosaic via ancient art of stone
- Stone Tree via Quentin Jeandel
- Arch by Chris Booth
- Thea Sunshine Alvin
- Iain Blake
- Max Nowell
- Jaime Filipe
- Michael Grab
- Andy Goldsworthy
- Richard Long
- Sylvain Mayer
- Escher land Art via Studio G