"It affects my whole life & work most profoundly," Barbara Hepworth once wrote to a friend in 1949 shortly before acquiring her St Ives studio. The studio, and especially the garden that Hepworth shaped (now the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden), was the primary and ideal context in which her sculptures were viewed, and many are as she placed them.At once a history and a portrait of a unique place, this unprecedented book illuminates the ways in which place and work were, for Hepworth, inextricably bound. Illustrated with numerous archival photographs, anddrawing on Hepworth’s personal correspondence, family memories and records, it is a fascinating and intimate insight into the life and work of one of Britain’s most extraordinary artists.
