Delphiniums or Larkspur provide perennial drama, colour intensity and height in the typical country garden. There are approximately 300 species of Delphiniums. The plants flower from late spring until late summer, they come in a varity of colours including spectacular shades of blue. Delphiniums are pollinated by butterflies and bumble bees and despite their general 'toxicity' are fed upon by some species of Lepidoptera'.
Our garden 'hybrid' sculpture, made from fused glass and stainless steel, is arranged for 'planting' amongst shrubs and flowers. It is topped with three threaded stainless steel 'raceme' each holding seven fused glass flowers in colours of blue, cyan and magenta. Inclusions of 'dichroic' glass within the flowers catch and reflect sunlight. After dusk the flowers are illuminated by light emitting diodes, hidden within a central stainless steel tube, their soft blue light is focussed by a small sphere of clear glass.
The three steel 'raceme' are part restrained by bracing, but within the limits of structural stability, they are free to sway in the light breeze of a warm summer's evening.
Fused glass and concept - by Anita Roberts and metalwork by George Roberts - September 2017
Photographs by kind permission of Jon and Jude Towns.
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