Description: Two carved Portland Stone forms based on an acorn cup and a seed with oak leaves attached, forming seating 4m long. They are fixed as a group directly onto the paving in the square.
Commission Title:
Acorn Cup, Seed and Leaves
Sculptors:
Philip Bews and
Diane Gorvin
Public Art:
Carved Portland Stone with oak seating
Production Period:
May - September 2006
Site:
Central Square, Whiteley, Hampshire, England
Commissioned By:
Hampshire County Council through Hyland Edgar Driver Landscape Architects
Production Method:
The stone forms carved from from selected quarried blocks from Stone Firms
on Portland, Dorset.
The oak for the leaf seating came from Ayleburton Common in the Forest of Dean supplied through B.Llewellyn Tree Surgeon.
Transportation and installation by Damon Bramley under Phil’s direction