Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Living the hive life

There is something very gently animated about Matt Somerville's Hampshire workshop. Around the edge chickens roam through flowering meads and long grass, and a little farther away, against a backdrop of beech trees swaying in the wind, is a group of tall, wooden sculptures that are distinctly alive in design.

With their pointy hats and long ambling limbs these structures look as though they might march off through the meadows and into woods at any minute. But move a little closer, slow down and really look, and you

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