New+garden

Lake Rd now has a rejuvenated garden. An open minimalist makeover has replaced the mature, and aged, compartmented semi-ecological habit that was over three decades in its accumulating. Most of the old historical layers of stones and concrete have been stripped away. We start again with a new canvas in an old frame.

The design was inspired by the abstract reliefs of Ben Nicholson and realised by Jonathan English, a Lakeside landscape technician. Why Ben Nicholson? Well, I am using him, together with his contemporary modernist Paul Nash, to illustrate a new chapter in my e-book on ‘Making Pictures. The outline can be seen at my Eyefetch blog, entitled 'Inner Landscapes'. Get at it via the marginal menu item called ‘Mypictureblog’ at [|www.culturalecology.typepad.com]