Kilkenny

Artist’s Studio and Visitor Facility in a Woodlands Set within the remnants of a historic demesne outside Thomastown, County Kilkenny, this modest new building occupies the footprint of an existing stone outbuilding, clearing a small aperture within a long-established woodland. Its setting is inseparable from its purpose. Kilfane Glen and Waterfall is not simply a garden, but a carefully constructed landscape in which architecture, water, woodland and art have long been brought into deliberate tension. Ste Murray Developed in the 1790s by Sir John and Lady Power under the influence of the Romantic movement, Kilfane Glen transformed a secluded ravine into an intensely picturesque landscape of woodland paths, streams, grotto, bri... More