"A UK garden designer and landscape artist, Ivan is best known for his highly acclaimed imaginative, innovative designs, the most well known being the ''Enchanted Forest'' at Groombridge in Kent, and ''Garden in Mind'' in Hampshire."
During one of my projects I looked into surrealist garden design in order to create an 'enchanted forest' for a design. One of the people i came across was Ivan Hicks. He is a Landscape Architect/ Garden Artist who uses surrealism and mythical influences to inform his work. The reason he caught my attention is for his enchanted forest at Goombridge Place, in Kent. He has described his garden designs for the enchanted forest to have been influenced by the Harry Potter books and JRR Tolkiens ring trilogy. He places objects in the garden and lets nature grow over and around them implying change and magic.
Link to Ivan Hicks website.
