The sculpture is a commemoration of the 1994 decision by the Secretary of State for the Environment to alter the Green Belt boundary to protect the Forster Country within it. “Only Connect” is the subtitle of E.M. Forster’s Howards End and the theme running through the whole of the novel.
The Sculptor
Angela Godfrey, BA, ARBS is one of this country’s leading sculptors. Her work has been widely exhibited, including several one-person shows. She has worked with the architect Richard Hurley on the re-ordering of churches at Hoddesdon, Harrow Weald, Ballyporeen in Co. Tipperary and Maidstone, among others. In 1994 she won an open competition for a street sculpture for the London Borough of Enfield, sited in Fore Street, Edmonton.