Barbara Hepworth Unofficial Resource Website

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
Dame Barbara Hepworth
with Carving Three Vertical Forms Offering 1967


  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