It's taken a while but finally and in time for the Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope's Leeds show - we have a finished Lilliput Lane model of Lawson Park, their vision of how it will be. This model along with the Japanese house will be editioned as a joint multiple of 21. The Japanese house will then be used in the village in Japan where the village will produce models for the gift market - an alternative product for the village, craft based and a bit different for Japan and hopefully a start of something new in terms of product. Lawson Park model will also be produced, not exactly sure what we will do with it to give it some bite, we will think of something, available on the honesty stalls soon.
I had kind of forgotten that art people find these things gross, the idea that some aesthetics are not acceptable seems strange now, these models just make me think about what it is that appeals so much, the smallness, the change of proportions, the image of the rural, of heritage, of life style fantasy. The magazine that Lilliput Lane put out (50,000) has many testamonials from buyers, touching explanations of the joy these things bring to thier owners, often linked to death, a vision of heaven. Laugh if you must.
Topics:
- aerial photography[1]
- allotment[1]
- alpines[1]
- apples[1]
- blueberries[1]
- bog[1]
- bonsai[1]
- Bracken[3]
- Brantwood[2]
- building[15]
- burgess roughton[1]
- coldframe[1]
- collection[1]
- delays[1]
- demolitions[2]
- drainage[2]
- drilling[2]
- drystone walling[1]
- eco[1]
- fennel[1]
- flower arranging[1]
- food[1]
- France[1]
- friends of the lake district[1]
- garden[11]
- gardener[2]
- gardening[1]
- geraniums[1]
- grand designs[2]
- ground source heat[3]
- haymaking[1]
- heather[1]
- hedgerow[2]
- history[1]
- honesty shop[2]
- honesty stall[1]
- interior[1]
- interiors[1]
- Ireland[1]
- irises[1]
- Japan[2]
- Kitchen Garden[5]
- landscape design[1]
- Lawson Park[14]
- Lawson Park building[2]
- Leck Construction[1]
- machinery[1]
- Magazine[1]
- materials[1]
- moor[1]
- morels[1]
- mosses[1]
- mountain bikes[1]
- mowing[1]
- mushrooms[1]
- Narnia[1]
- National Garden Scheme[2]
- new growth[1]
- open garden bog[1]
- Polar Bear[1]
- progress[1]
- pruning[1]
- raised beds[2]
- rock[1]
- rock garden[1]
- roses[1]
- Ruskin[1]
- seeds[1]
- sewage treatment[2]
- slate[1]
- snow[1]
- spring[1]
- Sustainable[1]
- tea house[1]
- trees[1]
- tropical[1]
- trug[1]
- vegetables[3]
- vegetables for sale[1]
- view[1]
- volunteer[1]
- water[1]
- weather[1]
- wild fungi[1]
- wildflower meadow[2]
- wind[1]
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2008
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2007
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2006
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