Barbara Hepworth

The interaction between people and the landscape as a basis for sculpture.

By William Noble



Dame Barbara Hepworth
with Carving Three Vertical Forms Offering 1967


I have split this essay into sections to give it structure,

  1. Introduction
  2. Cornwall
  3. Changing Influences
  4. Adapting Materials
  5. The Finale
  6. My Reaction
  7. Bibliography

" The inspiration always comes either from the artist in the landscape, feeling it, and becoming it, or the spectator observing the figure in the landscape and these qualities I think are of profound importance to the sculpture"

Barbara Hepworth 1956