I was walking through the western side of the forest one day, at the river at Farra Grain, when I came across a very old sculpture waymarker, bearing the number 24 on it. I wondered if the fact that the post was still there might mean that the sculpture could still be present as well. After half an hour poking about in the undergrowth, I came across a wooden figure reclining on the steep bank, overlooking the river. It wasn't until about fifteen years later that I found out it was actually Hilary Cartmel's other sculpture, 'White Water'. For years I'd been calling it '24'. The sculpture post is still just about there, but it has decayed a little and just looks like a fence post now. It's just by the side of the big stone footbridge.

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Cartmel's two sculptures at Grizedale shared a theme, as she explained:

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"Three months in the forest and it rained every day. The very wetness of the summer was wholly appropriate to what I wanted from Grizedale and that atmosphere I hope permeated into the sculpture. My work at Grizedale could be loosely encapsulated under the title of 'Women and Water'. So Grizedale's streams and waterfalls as well as the torrential summer weather were perfect."

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Also by this artist:

Her Insistent Stream 1985