Collaboration with Landscape Architect Randle Siddeley
The Vision: contemplative
When prominent landscape architect Randle Siddeley designed his private London garden, he invited the studio to develop two unique bronze sculptures conceived specifically for the space.
Unlike public or institutional installations, a designer’s personal sanctuary demands absolute clarity of intent. The brief began with an outline of scale, spatial volume, and rhythm, giving the studio the creative freedom to create works that were intrinsically balanced, structurally enduring and quietly contemplative.
Garden design operates as a grand composition, a living orchestration of plant architecture, light and changing seasons. Placing sculpture within that framework requires an acute sensitivity to boundaries and an active dialogue between the artist’s hand and the landscape architect’s spatial vision.
The evolution of the sculpture spanned months of design and direct studio work, moving from exploratory sketches, visualisations and then into direct investment casting and multi stage metal fabrication and finishing.
The form is defined by an uninterrupted, sweeping arch. This single ribbon of bronze serves as an emblem of enduring strength, balancing physical weight with visual lightness. Negative space was treated with equal priority to solid metal.
The apertures through the bronze actively frame sightlines across Arit’s planting palette, turning the surrounding botanical architecture into an essential component of the artwork itself. Cast in bronze and refined through meticulous chasing, the surface was developed to interact with natural sunlight, softening in low morning light and casting long, structural shadows as the sun traversed Main Avenue.
In the Garden: Sanctuary & Connection
When installed on Main Avenue, the bronze found its true context. Positioned among lush, tactile perennials and architectural planting, the piece served as both a focal anchor and an opening through which visitors experienced the garden.
For the community represented by Parkinson’s UK, the sculpture offered a steady, tactile presence, a quiet touchstone amid the sensory energy of the show, proving that raw metal and delicate nature can coexist to create genuine sanctuary.
