January excitements

I visited a David Nash exhibition in Wales and was blown away by his understanding of trees and wood. Of great interest was his "Ash Dome", a living art installation created by him. He planted 22 ash saplings in a ring in a secret location in Snowdonia, Wales, in 1977.

Nash used techniques from British hedge-making to bend and train the trees as they grew, shaping them into a dome or vortex-like structure over decades.

The artwork is intended to be a long-lived, ever-evolving sculpture that changes with the seasons and time, existing on the timescale of nature itself.

Its exact location has never been publicly revealed by the artist, and it is not meant for public visitors, remaining a private, site-specific installation.

I was particularly interested in this because we made our bird hide out of willow sapling to create a dome in which to be hidden. We have window spaces facing down the different paths and a bench which can be moved around.

Our bird hide