Barbara Hepworth

‘Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic’, wrote Barbara Hepworth. ‘Here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space’. Discover the magical power of her garden in this beautiful new edition of the original book. Filled with stunning new imagery of the garden at it’s best throughout the seasons. Explore Hepworth’s extraordinary talent for curating the natural world in one of the UKs most loved gardens. Chris Stephens and Miranda Phillips provide a comprehensove record of Hepworth’s years in St Ives whilst new texts explaining the plants and flowers by Head Gardener, Jodi Dickinson, give expert insight into the nature hiding behind the studio walls at Trewyn. Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios – now the Barbara Hepworth Museum – from 1949 until her death in 1975. Most of the bronzes are in the positions in which the artist herself placed them. The garden itself was laid out by Barbara Hepworth with help from a friend, the composer Priaulx Rainier and is lovingly maintained as it was today.