Untame My Heart
As I gaze across magnificent fynbos to rugged mountains, I’m reminded of how beautiful – and wild – the Cape Winelands are. Well-tended vineyards, orchards and elegant country homes push up against mountain wilderness where eagles soar and leopards still roam.
It’s the week of the Stellenbosch Woordfees and Dylan Lewis, widely recognised as one of the world’s foremost sculptors of the animal form, is taking small groups on a tour of his sculpture garden on the flank of the Stellenbosch Mountain. With visits only by appointment, the Dylan Lewis Sculpture Garden remains somewhat concealed.
We walk through a garden gate, the remaining tribute to the cottage in which the artist originally lived on the farm. Flanked by two camellias (Camellia japonica), and with towering oaks, a plane tree and a wild gardenia, it has the feel of an old cottage garden.
The first section of the garden, with its pruned hedges and manicured lawns rolling
