Near Heaven 2022

Vanessa Bell’s Studio, Charleston, East Sussex, UK

Near Heaven‘: An installation in the rarely seen studio of Vanessa Bell at Charleston Farmhouse, East |Sussex.

Materials: Mirror acrylic ceilings and eaves with MDF nd softwood support, accompanied by portrait busts of Julia Stephen (mother) and Virginia Woolf (sister) and two portraits: ‘VB by DG March 1962’, ‘VB by L&B March 2022’, and seasonal flowers provided by Charleston gardener Harry Carew Hobb.

Photos by James Bellorini and Richard Waite