Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, home of the late Derek Jarman, artist and film director, Kent, England, UK, GB
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5571 x 3714 px | 47.2 x 31.4 cm | 18.6 x 12.4 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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The late artist and film director Derek Jarman is also remembered for his famous shingle cottage-garden, created in the latter years of his life, in the shadow of Dungeness nuclear power station. The cottage is built in vernacular style in timber, with tar-based weatherproofing, like others nearby. Raised wooden text on the side of the cottage is the first stanza and the last five lines of the last stanza of John Donne's poem, The Sun Rising. The cottage garden was made by arranging flotsam washed up nearby, interspersed with endemic salt-loving beach plants, both set against the bright shingle. The garden has been the subject of several books and still attracts visitors to admire the setting in the stark scenery of Dungeness shingle headland.