Stop – #1. The Figure In The Walled Garden, Attingham Park, Shropshire

On Sunday, as the humidity of the summer soaked into our bones, we walked around the walled kitchen garden at Attingham Park, a Georgian estate owned by the National Trust, not far from Shrewsbury. Inside the garden there is a strange, skeletal sculpture of a female form, her skirts being taken over slowly by curling tendrils of sweet peas.

She looked e…