Video - Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden

This clip was taken on a breezy November day during a visit to St Ives. 

The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives is an opportunity to see the work of one of Britain's most famous artists.

There are Sculptures in bronze, stone and wood on display in the Museum and in the Garden. many of the sculptures are in the original position chosen by Barbara Hepworth when the garden was laid out by Barbara Hepworth with help from a friend, the composer Priaulx Rainier.

She moved to Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson in 1939 and lived and worked in Trewyn studios, which is now now the Hepworth Museum, from 1949 until her death in 1975.

It was her wish following her death that her home and studio be available as a museum of her work. Trewyn Studio and much of the artist's work remaining there was given to the nation and placed in the care of the Tate Gallery in 1980.

 For more information about the artist Community in St Ives.

You can see another St Ives movie clip here