Flashback 2010 - the gardens of Derek Jarman and Brian Yale, Dungeness, Kent.

Prospect Cottage Dungeness.

As the heading to this blog says, these photos were taken in 2010. Derek Jarman's garden is famous, but in 2010 most of the plants in the garden had more or less gone. I would have loved to have seen this garden in full bloom, but we were lucky enough to also have seen Brian Yale's garden just two doors away. 

Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, the home of Derek Jarman from 1986. 

The 'writing on the wall' of Prospect Cottage. The poem is from John Donne's 'The Sun Rising'

Some of the items that were still in the garden in 2010.

Derek Jarman lived here until his death in 1994, after his death the cottage was looked after by his partner Keith Collins until he too passed away in 2018. The Cottage and Garden were bought in 2020 by Art Fund, with Creative Folkestone being the custodians of the site, thereby saving this amazing place for the nation.

100 yards further on from Prospect Cottage is the garden of Brian Yale. An artist like Derek Jarman, he filled his garden with recycled junk. We spent ages looking at all the items here. For a long time I thought this was all Derek Jarman's garden.

The rope man

Clever use of bits of driftwood, a fish :)

The rocket.

A boat.

The Wishing Well

Yachts sailing, and a rope snake in the background. 

The outline of a boat filled with shoes and all sorts of items washed up on the beach.

Another view of the boat, Prospect Cottage can be seen in the background with its distinctive yellow windows.

Interesting stones set in the grass.

Best in class, Crufts 2007. It is amazing what can be made with driftwood and rusty nails :)

Owls within an Owl's head,

Sea glass 

Another owl

A dinosaur?

The Pilgrims....

...each with a face.

Not sure what this represented?

The lovely time piece. Each piece of slate had something written on it.

Back to the clock, I thought this was amazing, my favourite piece :)

Some of the slates with their messages.

Viagra needed!!

The Millennium Dome complete with the Millennium Bug 

More sea glass.

Messages in bottles, arranged in a heart shape.

Some of the seven deadly sins.

Clever!

The message on the slate above translates as 'Love Conquers All'

Rope sculptures.

 Brian Yale's cottage and Garden.

Walking round the two gardens was just amazing, but please bear in mind this was 2010, we have been down to this spot more recently and as far as I can recall most of the things in Brian Yale's garden have gone, which is a real shame. I am really pleased that we got to see this when we did :)