Barbara Hepworth Garden and Sculpture Park
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Address – Barnoon Hill
St Ives
Cornwall
TR26 1AD
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| Phone | 01736 796226 |
| Opening times |
All year, Tuesday to Sunday and Mondays in July and August 10.30am to 5.30pm
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| Collection/special features | Sculpture |
| Dog friendly? |
No |
| Child friendly? |
Yes |
| Description |
The garden was Barbara Hepworth's own creation and was gradually filled with her sculptures in wood, stone and bronze. It’s an oddly and quintessentially English garden, but with a difference – the layout of the garden is made to fit the sculptures and so there is an intrinsic relationship between plantings and sculptures that is rarely seen elsewhere. Gravel paths lead the visitor in between exotic plantings to Hepworth’s workshop. There is a raised pond and glimpses of the sea allow the visitor to understand how the impressionistic nature of some of her sculpture was shaped by her working environment. |
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Hepworth Sculpture Garden photograph by SideLong, used under a creative commons licence
