One of the earliest contributors to the sculpture project at Grizedale, Keir Smith had recently finished a Fine Art course at the Chelsea School of Art when he was granted his first residency. Born in Kent in 1950, Smith was a keen painter and writer, and in his first stint in the forest he created a vast work which was made up of several components. Who better to describe the piece than the artist himself? He said about his 'Realm Of Taurus':

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"My piece of work in the Grizedale Forest suggests a relationship between the characters portrayed in the constellations and situations on the ground.

The work itself consists of a number of related units. Two entrance posts flank a forest track. On the posts, the signs of two constellations are branded, Orion the Hunter and the Hyades from Taurus the Bull. A conflict between man and beast is suggested. Orion opposes Taurus in the night sky perpetually.

The path leads to a circular stockade enclosing fifteen posts. The posts represent ten cows and five calves. Bovine hoof-prints are branded into the surface of the posts. Guarding this 'herd', at the entrance to the stockade, is another post branded with the constellation Taurus.

A smaller enclosure, some distance from the main stockade, on higher ground, contains the constellation Aries the Ram and the tracks of a ewe. Outside the enclosure is a pair of shears, suggesting animal husbandry as the reason for the containment."