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Gravity and Grace

Verdance

A sphere of leaves, weightless in steel

As light moves across its surface, the leaves appear to shimmer with life, inviting reflection on nature's resilience, abundance and quiet power.

Verdance is a celebration of the energy that flows through all living things, and a reminder that even the smallest leaf plays a part in something extraordinary.

MaterialSteel, cut by hand
FinishWeathered to the seasons
SettingGarden or interior
Prices from£1,600 plus VAT
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Verdance, a steel sphere of overlapping leaves, a garden sculpture on a lawn.
Verdance, a steel sphere garden sculpture, beside a pond and mirrored in the water.
Verdance, a steel leaf sphere, among spring bluebells in a woodland garden.
Close detail of Verdance, the overlapping hand-cut steel leaves of the sphere.
Verdance, a steel sphere garden sculpture, on a lawn amid autumn colour.
Verdance set in a haze of spring bluebells, a steel garden sculpture by Donna Harvey-Bailye.
Sculptor Donna Harvey-Bailye beside Verdance, her steel leaf sphere.
Two Verdance spheres of differing sizes on a lawn at dusk, steel garden sculptures.
Verdance glowing from within at night, a steel garden sculpture lit like a lantern among the trees.
Verdance, a steel sphere of leaves, beside a pond with alliums in flower.
Verdance, a steel garden sculpture, on a lawn in soft evening light.
Verdance, the steel leaf sphere, set among mature trees.
Verdance, a contemporary steel garden sculpture, on an open lawn.
Verdance, the steel sphere of leaves, as a focal point in the garden.
A pair of Verdance spheres on a lawn among trees, steel garden sculptures.
Two Verdance steel spheres of differing sizes catching the dusk light.
Verdance, a steel leaf sphere, on a lawn among mature trees.
Close detail of the overlapping hand-cut steel leaves of Verdance.
The leaf pattern across the curved steel surface of Verdance.
Verdance in a blossom finish beneath a dramatic sky, a steel garden sculpture.
Close detail of the steel blossoms on Verdance.
The cut and shaped steel flowers of Verdance in close detail.

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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