Frieda Hughes: Art can ‘grow’ in the strangest places

Poet Frieda Hughes takes us on a spellbinding journey through the process of working with someone else to create art – one in which metalwork meets nature... and becomes something new and beautiful

‘A pair of ring-necked doves built a nest, laid eggs, and reared two chicks’ (Frieda Hughes)

THE METAL TREE

Several men opened several bottles of beer and cans of lager and admired

The finished spaces they’d worked in for three years, as if there had always