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    THE JOY OF The Blank Page

    Apr 21, 2021 5 minutes
    WORDS BARBARA SEGALL
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    ZARA NAPIER

    Moving house from the city to the country brings with it change a-plenty, but leaving behind a mature 22-year-old garden that regularly opened for the National Garden Scheme to start afresh, offers additional challenges. For artist and illustrator Judith Glover, who made such a move in the winter of 2013-14 from North London to a Suffolk market town, it offered a completely clean slate and a new challenge.

    Judith deepened and curved the borders, making them more generous and interesting

    What Judith acquired was a garden of two roughly rectangular shapes linked by a path and a raised brick sun-trap terrace outside the garden room that became her new studio. The larger of the two rectangles, was “less than inviting” as she noted in her garden journal.

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