... the studio of Barbara Hepworth - tools out, overalls hung on the door, works in progress, the whiteness contrasting to the greenness outside...strange feeling to stand and look in to her space, her studio so quiet and calm but so sad too. Hepworth was tragically killed in a studio fire in 1975 and following her wishes her studio and garden was opened to the public in 1976.The sculptures contained within her garden are said to be some of her favourites.
above is Youtube video from Tate website: TateShots: Barbara Hepworth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PPM8foaH_k
She lived and worked in Trewyn studios, now the Hepworth Museum, from 1949 until her death in 1975. TateShots travelled to St Ives to explore the studio and its gardens, where Hepworth’s sculptures are seen in the environment for which they were created. ‘Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic’, wrote Hepworth; ‘here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space’.
Her studio stands in the garden: peer in and you can see the tools she loved to use, all her chisels, saws and hammers, as well as her white work apron and a set of unfinished works, geometric stone spheres as pure as they are precise. The feeling you get, though, is of melancholy, perhaps because the story of Hepworth's studio is so horrible: this sculptor, born in Wakefield in 1903 and recognised as one of the outstanding British artists of the 20th century, died in a fire here.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/may/02/barbara-hepworth-wakefield
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