A Layered Landscape
A self-taught architect and landscape designer, Marie Clews imagined in the early twentieth century a sequence of “secret” gardens, open to the sea and punctuated by water features, sculpted furnishings, and spaces for contemplation, where only white flowers were permitted to bloom.
While exploring the Foundation’s archives, Cynthia Imogen Hammond uncovered a little-known episode in their history: between 1919 and 1937, the Clews family maintained a menagerie of exotic birds there, all of them white. This revelation became the starting point for a series of paintings that bring this forgotten memory into dialogue with the garden as it exists today, now inhabited by different plants and animals.
Through these works, the artist questions how archival images can be reactivated and transformed without freezing the past, instead placing it in conversation with the present.
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