Art in nature to inspire and soothe the soul.
Artists have created works in response to the theme of Ritual and the unique natural space at Bayfield Hall in the Glaven Valley. Starting on the formal front lawn of the hall the artworks are situated in the private gardens, woodlands, ancient chapel and valley at Bayfield. The selected artists work in a variety of materials including metal, stone, textiles, sound, film, ceramics and more. The artists are from across the UK, Europe and USA with a wealth of talent, experience and imagination to help create our 5th uplifting Bayfield Hall Sculpture Trail.
Rebecca Amphlett – Path of Life’s Rituals. A collaboration between Gervais Fediuk (Gervais of Sol) and Rebecca Amphlett (Dandelion mosaics)
Artwork description – Life is a continuous unfolding series of thresholds These six stepping stones lay down a physical journey through the universal rituals of human experience. BIRTH, COMING OF AGE, UNION, REFLECTION, LOSS & TRANSCENDANCE. Each step reminds us of the cycles of being human. As the path concludes, it places you before the WINDOW TO WHERE—a portal through which the journey turns from reflection to possibility. Having walked through the essential rituals of a life lived, the frame stands open: a threshold framing nature, time, and whatever realm lies next. Here, at the end of the path, you are invited to look through and pause.
www.dandelionmosaics.com
www.instagram.com/dandelion_mosaics
Meg Amsden – Celestial Gardening
Ritual is the basis for alchemical practice which was known in the past as celestial gardening. Alchemists revered nature. Their rich imagery included four birds in particular: swan, phoenix, raven and peacock. The birds related to the four seasons, compass directions, elements, humours, and had their own symbolic colours. They are placed on a symbol of the labyrinth representing the journey of life, with the Philosopher’s Egg at the centre.
Copies (an edition of 5) of the four bass reliefs are for sale @ £450 each
The whole piece, including 4 bass reliefs, Labyrinth table and Philosopher’s Egg: £1,800
Ball Nick – Iggy – Recycled data cable creature.
Ever felt strung up by technology ?
He certainly is physically, Are you metaphorically?
caught up in the ritual of communication.
Rachael Barns – Streetcombed
Rachael Barns finds wonder in waste and elevates the unwanted. She predominantly uses materials that would otherwise be thrown away, are found discarded or are sourced second-hand. Her work acts as a stance against consumerism and the associated waste.
Synthetic Spectrum £250
Plastic Problems £125
Plastic Solutions £125
Found Things Basket £150
Wheel Basket £125
Archie Browning – Benevolence (pictured) – iron resin, £5950. Inception -granite, £3835, plinth is an additional £250.
Archie Browning | Artist | UK (@archiebrowning) • Instagram photos and videos
Helen Breach – Your Move
Life is a game of chess, each move is a choice, each decision affects the outcome. Logic, intellect and strategy direct us, the players, as we calculate the possibilities, the line of movement of our own rituals and destiny. Or do you just watch on the sidelines?
Sit, play, work out your next moves with a mixed audience.
Recycled materials, fabric, furniture, plaster, steel, mirror, ceramic.
Assorted items for sale – please enquire at reception
Laura Cannell – The Lost Villages
A site-specific Sound Walk created specifically for the Bayfield Hall Sculpture Trail Autumn 2026. The music is inspired by East Anglian places which have disappeared throughout the centuries but once held people and sound.
Sometimes all that remains is the metal, leather and timber of past communities, the echoes of ghost buildings and the stories of circle dancing around the stones to keep the witches out. Crumbling towers remain and memories are embedded in the flints or washed beneath the waves.
The Lost Villages Soundwalk will be released as an album on CD/Cassette and Digital on September 25th 2026 www.brawlrecords.co.uk
Liz Cannell – RITUAL; stitching recycled shirts as a form of ritual.
Dom Cooper – Goddess of Nature
In modern paganism, rituals often centre on representing a Goddess figure as a focus of devotion and to connect with Nature and ancient traditions.
Limestone on a Douglas Fir plinth
£1200
website: domcooper.uk
Jon Cornwall – No Climbing Allowed
No Climbing Allowed
Behind every warning sign there is a story. This work is actually a dozen stories of people selling at bootsales, vintage markets and good old Facebook Marketplace, where they’re selling Nan’s old pyrex rolling pin or giving away an old ladder.
A dozen people who now know that their item is becoming something new. We must allow people into the ritual of the creative process. To give new life to beautiful things.
This ladder isnt for climbing, but it can do something new, cant it?
Kally Davidson – Alter Altar
I see the Craft of Art as ritual, deeply connecting me to a state of flow, the nature of myself and community. Born through transition, these hand-spun, freeform crocheted masks bring new life to past threads. Resilience through overwhelm, whether calming, grounding, releasing, healing or evoking humour. Giving a sense of place in the seat of soul and the very fabric of my being.
Prices; Alter Altar £295; Masks; 1 £65, 2 £105, 3 £95, 4 £85, 5 £65
Sophie Giller – Going Somewhere Else – £1,150
A patchwork banner made from lining fabrics and thread, to create a wall of colour that plays with scale, translucency, light and abstract compositions. Going somewhere else, lining fabrics, thread, chord, July 2023, 4m x 4m.
Website: www.sophiegiller.co.uk
Instagram: @gillersophie
Celia Halifax – Arachne. Large webs £143. Small webs £123. Inspired by the myth of Arachne, this installation consists of a series of suspended webs, intricately woven from jewellery chain and vintage beads. Created through a repetitive process of weaving and assembly, the work explores ritual as an act of making, where repeated gestures become both meditative and meaningful.
The chains and beads, once used as adornment, have been transformed into delicate web-like structures. Beaded spiders appear throughout the webs, while a large spider sculpture represents Arachne herself. Condemned by Athena to become a spider, she is bound to an endless cycle of weaving, turning the act of creation into a ritual that can never be completed.
@celia_halifax
Fiona Hammond – Embrace, £3,000
Explores the profound experience of love and connection, expressing the way two individuals can come together while retaining their own identity, freedom and strength. Created in response to the theme of Ritual, the sculpture reflects the quiet, repeated acts of care, trust and devotion that sustain relationships over time. These everyday rituals—often unnoticed—form the foundation of our deepest bonds.
Hannah Hardy – Alter
Prize winning international multi disciplinary artist Hannah Hardy invites us to mindfully reflect on the connection between our inner and outer worlds through deep nature connection with the other than human. Alter features a collection of dynamic yet sensitive artworks including an experiential public participation ritual inspired by indigenous rites of passage, treated with respect to offer opportunities for us to develop our own experiential understanding of ritual. Hannah’s art is playful yet profound, often participatory and she is inspired by artists such as Yoko Ono and Ana Mendieta. Alter features meditative prompts, prints including Hannah’s living mycelium sculptures, a figure from leaves and enormous rainbow wings created through feathers gifted to Hannah through art nature connection workshops in various communities. Hannah will be holding a Magical mycelium living sculpture workshop for The UK fungus day in collaboration with the British Mycological Society.
Sculptures Poa (A1 prints £55)
Alison Henry – Courtship Ritual
Avian courtship rituals – the displays and behaviours birds adopt to attract and secure a mate – include songs and calls, dances and displays, the building of nests, the offers of gifts of food, and mutual preening. Sometimes these rituals are beautifully intimate and tender, often leading to pair-bonds for life, and proof (if needed) that affection is not confined to humankind.
Jesmonite with marble on a steel plinth
Ed. no. 1 of 9
Price (including plinth) – £2,950
Website: https://alisonhenry.weebly.com/
Instagram: @alisonhenrysculptor
Jarrett Andy – Dragonfly, £3,250.
Mainly Working in steel, I love the creativity of producing sculptures for outdoor spaces that capture a wide range of natures raw beauty, all of which never fail to excite and fascinate me.
Paeony Lewis – Tidal Rites
4,000 years ago, two towering ritual circles stood on saltmarsh. One was ‘Seahenge’. Now, when shifting sands and tides align, decayed oak remnants emerge of the second circle. For six spring tides the artist visited Holme beach, drawn to the lingering remains of past ritual. On site, expired photographic papers interacted directly with the ancient oaks, and the cameraless lumen images are reprinted on pine from Holme dunes.
Lucy Lutyens – Embodiment of Love, iron resin, £3,950. Love Birds, iron resin, £2,450.
Andy Maule – What you want it to be. Steel, copper wire, plastic ball
This work means very different things to different people: “a life within a life”; “the big bang”; “you, at the heart of everything”; “the source”; and many other suggestions. Subjected to the elements it becomes kinetic and slowly transformative, perhaps a metaphor for our time.
Kate Munro – This Blaze Of Growing – £3450
A visit to the site in high summer looking for the tiny weeds blooming around the ruins of St Margaret’s Church led to these corten steel plasma cut panels of Marguerite daisies. The daisy is associated with the Norse Goddess of fertility and love. It is heartening to know this energy and memory of love and growth is being stored underground as we move towards the darker days of autumn.
Instagram: @katemunromakesthings
Louise Severyn Kosinska – Budka Hut,shed, glasshouse, greenhouse, icehouse, gingerbread, wood, straw, mud . A place for creativity, nurturing, contemplation, worship but also contains warnings and cautionary tales.
The hut in the forest has a symbiotic relationship – the wilderness of the unconscious and the unknown with a small careful clearing of consciousness carved out . It’s not always possible to enter but we can look in to restore and read the map of the soul in the mirror.
Louise is a multi media artist based in London .
Website: https://www.louisekosinska.comInstagram :@severynkosinska
Liz Maw – Doodles. I am interested in the potential of a simple line, when lifted off the page, to redefine how we perceive space and surface, I aim to construct lines that float, intersect, and cast shadows—engaging not just the eye, but the body. Working between two and three-dimensions, the daily ritual of doodling becomes inspiration for sculpture.
Website: https://www.elizabethmaw.co.uk/
Instagram: @elizabethmaw
Facebook: Liz Maw
MicroKino – Award winning animations in our new cinema space at Bayfield. Curated by Professor Suzie Hanna and featuring some of our favourites from the well established Raveningham Sculpture Trail MicroKino.
Sculpture Trails Film Festival 2026 – featuring work from UK, Germany, USA and Spain.
Nik Montali – Autumn Rite uses steel and copper to embody ritual transformation. Corroding Steel signifies death and dissolution, whilst Copper’s evolving patina evokes renewal. Through weatheringthe work becomes a ritual object where decay gives way to new life.
Robert Moore – The Silver Samara. A wind-powered kinetic sculpture made from stainless steel, inspired by the sycamore seed. £12,145.
Joy Pitts – Bayfield Countess
My piece for Bayfield will focus on the RITUALS of caring for dogs, their companionship, daily walks and how dogs anchor us to our surroundings. Here at Bayfield, there is a long history of dog ownership with many marked graves around the chapel in remembrance. I would like to focus on the three pedestal (plinth) graves remembering Countess, Nimble (1904), and Desma. My idea is to use discarded plastic plant labels to assemble coats for the dogs, making a connection between daily dog walks and the great outdoors.
www.joypitts.co.uk @joynextthesea
Lizzy Sainsbury and Kate Morse – Small Rituals
iron, brass, copper, glass, wood, stoneware clays 150 × 80 × 80 cm
Five chambers, each crafted from a distinct combination of materials, sit at the tips of tall iron rods arranged in a circle. Lizzy Sainsbury’s sculptural installation explores the cyclic rituals of daily life: sleeping, baking, supping, bathing and praying.
The work is a collaboration with Kate Morse, whose poem is set on the ground beneath the sculptures. It continues an artistic partnership, in which text and form shape one another.
@lizzysainsburyinstallations
@katemorse141
Meryem Siemmond – Threshold for the Unseen, Ancaster Oolitic limestone on Italian verde marble. £1650
This sculpture explores ritual through repeated interaction — through labour, care, maintenance, and touch. Carved surfaces suggest alignment, activation and the passage of time, while resisting any fixed interpretation. The work imagines ritual as an imprint left upon matter, where ordinary materials become vessels for memory, belief, connection, and quiet spiritual presence. It invites reflection on personal and collective acts of remembrance, meditation and the unseen forces that shape human experience.
https://www.meryemsiemmond.com
@meryemsiemmond
Bee Springwood – Nature Mandala
I am a collector of wild and natural things; delights I bump into on walks around beaches, woods, fields, my garden, and the site where i am working. This piece includes the eucalyptus and oak leaves.
From this develops the Ritual of ordering the details and pattern, as a form of meditation, a resonance of energies when gathered together for a short while.
Tibetan Sand Mandalas are a ritual to focus prayers, creating a form which will then dissolve back into nature.
This little glade will hopefully house your own meditative moment with this temporary assembly; reminding us of order within nature, but also that all things will change, as this will do over its time resting here. @springwoodbees
Amber Stefani – Out Of The Cocoon – Out of the Cocoon is a large-scale interactive butterfly sculpture, standing approximately 3m high × 4.2m wide. Four intricately patterned wings surround integrated seating, inviting visitors to sit within the butterfly and become part of the artwork.
The sculpture is solar powered, illuminating after dark and transforming into a glowing butterfly at night. It also incorporates an atmospheric soundscape that shares the story of butterflies, their habitats and the delicate ecosystems they depend upon, bringing an environmental narrative into the experience.
Not for sale. Bespoke large-scale commissions available from £55,000.
Jane West – The Reading Group – Ceramic figures endeavouring to capture quietude, contemplation and being ‘lost’ in a book. £100 each.
Monica Wheeler – Wooden Traces
Old wooden shoe lasts, attached to a ladder and a leafless dead tree … symbolise our transitory existents.
The work connects the cycles of nature with our own brief passage through life.
