'Timeline' is a Site Specific Slab built clay sculpture situated in Pishiobury Park Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire. For exact location go to the Art Uk website http://www.artuk.org


Photos: Top left - The first visitors (cows) inspecting the new feature. Top right Raku firing workshops at the park. Bottom left walking up to Timeline for the unveiling. Bottom right building the plinth from old reclaimed bricks made at a now defunct local brick factory. Inserted into the side of the plinth are pieces of flint a natural material specific to the surrounding geographical area.


The four historic periods which I uncovered whilst researching the park and which form the body of the work.

Neolithic: The park contains a Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure the shadow of this can be seen from the air. Early people would have been attracted to the site due to it's close proximity to the River Stort and the natural spring which still exists.

Roman: Roman burials were unearthed during building work in the 1960s containing grave goods including pottery and coins. The name of the park Pishiobury is thought to be from this period Pishio ( a Roman of note) and Bury or Burgh an Anglo Saxon name for Fort. Within the earlier enclosure lies the outline of what is thought to be a Roman Temple.

Norman/Tudor: The Normans enclosed the park and introduced deer for hunting and in Tudor times a house had existed and the land owned by Henry V111 who gave it to Anne Boleyn. The Oak walk where the sculpture is sited is to this day known as Anne's walk.

17th/18th Century : Capability Brown landscaped the park creating a Lime Walk up to the house and introducing a lake by altering the flow of the adjacent River Stort.

Lino cut designs preliminary to the completed slab built sculpture . Surrounding the historic periods the wavy lines and corner spirals symbolise the abundance of water. The center-piece imagines a timeline of people who would have inhabited the park and surrounding them the leaves of some of the trees prominent in the park.