Look, a living sculpture, the controller of the village, ' he says as he points to a gruff dog watching us from a gatepost.

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However, seen from above and nearer to the woods, with its sunken walls half-embedded into the hillside, it reveals itself as a modernist sculpture in living green a minimalist form that could have been designed by Richard Serra or Maya Lin.

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Angelica Hoyos, a 26-year-old living in Los Angeles, has put her photography and sculpture career on hold since her parents pulled the financial plug earlier this year after the family's granite-countertop business suffered.

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Mr de Weldon wandered around Europe, joining artists' colonies in France, Italy and Spain and eventually living for a time in London, where he gained a number of commissions, among them a portrait sculpture of George V.

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