Van Gogh's Olive trees in dry stone by Richard Clegg.

 
   
       
 

 

The stone for the wall (pictured right) was reclaimed sand stone from the local collapsed field walls which had long since been neglected. Richard (below) used grit stone from a nearby Victorian quarry for the tree's foliage. The tree is a retraining wall using about 20 tons of stone to stabilise the higher ground.

   
           
 
     
 
   
 


Richard and his son Lewyn built the wall in a private garden near Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England of 'Last of the Summer Wine' fame. The client set the challenge that we should build a tree in the style of Van Gogh's Olive trees. This is an intuitive interpretation. The work which was a small part of a much larger project cost £5,000.

Pictured below Richard and Lewyn stand in front of a similar design built using granite and slate. The dry stone tree is built in the Tatra mountains, part of the Carpathian mountain chain between Slovakia and Poland.

 
 
 
           
         
 

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