Barbara Hepworth Form Stone & Slate ObjectStriking stone & slate ornament inspired by the abstract forms of Barbara Hepworth's work. Barbara Hepworth began her career as a sculptor in London in the late 1920s, and quickly established herself in the vanguard of the modern movement. Caught in St. Ives by the outbreak of the war, she went on to spend thirty six years exactly half her life in the town. Hepworth came to value the sense of community she found in St. Ives, and it was this very