A garden of four seasons

A sequence of sculptures that tells the tale of changing seasons. The collection was tailored specifically to a newly created outdoor space hidden within magnificent and extensive grounds. Each piece is mainly made from chestnut-hued oxidized steel – a natural fit with the surroundings – with flashes of mirror-polished stainless steel, allowing us to create the series within budget.

Design details

Winter

This crystalline form, like an ice crystal frozen in time, narrates the harshness of winter. A concertina of oxidized steel is interrupted with shards of stainless steel to offer flashes of pale sky and passing clouds – light relief from the frigid dormancy of the outdoors in winter.

Spring

Shaped like a single seed, spring represents the potential for growth. The embryonic leaf waiting for spring rain.

Summer

Oxidised steel husks fall away to reveal a new, shiny, stainless-steel shoot reaching skyward toward the sun.

Fall

Inspired by Steel Breeze, the fall stage of the story talks to the latter half of the season, after the harvest, when hundreds of reflective puddles form in the divots of the fields and the whispers of first frosts begin.