6 Methuen Park Opens This Weekend

Artist and garden designer Yulia Badian's garden opens for the final time this year on Sunday 12th September.

Her contemporary family garden featuring a moat with frogs and darting fish, and sonic installation with 5 Perspex speakers singing about love and the mysteries of life, has had a new recent addition - Duende.

Carved by Yulia with the assistance of Marek Suransky, Duende is a 180cm x 60cm carved Cedar, burnt and oiled in 2010.

'All love songs must contain duende. For the love song is never truly happy. It must first embrace the potential for pain With it come irrationality, a heightened awareness of death and a dash of the diabolic. Carving Duende was like a dance with that deep dark place in me.  A struggle not a thought, a way of making my process visible, emotions translating into an abstract form.'

Now that it is done I enjoy hearing what others see, a seedpod, a bird springing from its egg, many faces, a dark goddess, smooth sensuous wood waiting to be touched.

Visit 6 Methuen Park in London this weekend. The garden is open from 1.30pm - 6.30pm.