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Gravity and Grace

Ascent

A column of leaves, rising to the light

A column of steel leaves that lifts from the border and twists toward the light, around five feet tall. It gives a planting scheme a still point to gather around.

It holds its presence through the winter when the beds die back, and reads as well against a dark hedge as it does open against the sky.

MaterialSteel, cut by hand
FinishWeathered to the seasons
SettingBorder or open lawn
Prices from£1,600 plus VAT
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Yours alone

Made with you, and yours alone.

Every piece begins as a conversation. You work directly with Donna to shape a sculpture for your own setting and your own eye, so the finished work belongs to its place as much as to the collection. No two are ever the same, and each is made in only the smallest of numbers.

The steel can be taken in many directions. From the soft, living patina of a natural weathered finish to warm coppers, rich colour and bright plating, the surface is chosen to sit with your planting, your stone and your light. There is no fixed palette and no limit to the finish, only what suits the place it will stand in.

Pierced right through, every form is made to hold light. Set a lamp low or hidden within and the sculpture turns lantern after dark, throwing the pattern of its leaves soft and large across a wall or a lawn. A quiet presence by day, by night it becomes the glowing centrepiece a garden gathers around.

Scale is yours to set. Working with Donna, a piece can be drawn for the grandest of settings, a hotel foyer, a corporate courtyard or a public garden, or kept to the intimacy of a smaller, more private space. Whatever its size, it is made one leaf at a time, and made only for you.

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Each commission is made to order. Describe the setting and the scale you have in mind, and Donna will design to suit.

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