Will Glanfield – Ridding Wood Trail – 1991
Photograph taken September 2017
Material: Wood
Trail: Ridding Wood Trail
Theme: Seating
Form: Realism
Maps Featured on: ?, 1993 – 2006,
Status: Still in situ weathered March ’24
Quote by the artist “My work must have meaning and context. Ideas on design and construction are stimulated by the specific site, landscape and related themes to where the work will be placed. My goals are the marriage of function and aesthetics, work on a human scale, objects that touch people.”
“This alter like seat is substantial in its dry stone wall recess.” – Meg Falconer 1996
This is a simple seat at the end of the Ridding Wood Trail. If you look closely you will see that a beetle has been carved into each leg. The archive describes it as being inspired by an Elizabethan Sampler. Despite being one of only two seats left on the Ridding Wood Trail, a trail designed to be accessible to all, it has not been listed on a map after 2012 despite very much being in situ still, if a bit weathered.
Photographs Taken August 2019
Artist’s other work in Grizedale
– We Three Kings – 1991
Artist’s Website: www.willglanfield.co.uk/
Page last updated August 2022
Grizedale Forest Sculpture An Unofficial Archive 