Lubbesthorpe has been inhabited for thousands of years by successive generations, and the design reflects traces of these earlier farming communities. The left-hand panel tells the story of the working landscape, with a frieze of human figures set within a distant landscape portraying the cycle of agricultural activity. It also incorporates images of Iron Age settlements and an extract from the Domesday Book of 1086, which refers to “Lubestrop” as a small farming community of just nine households.

The right-hand panel celebrates the fruits of the earth through a large figure representing Mother Earth, together with contours of the landscape, harvests, birds, rabbits, fish and the Leicestershire fox. The people of Lubbesthorpe share a profound connection with the land and nature, and I have sought to express that mystical and spiritual relationship with the earth, land and nature, celebrating the enduring cycles of life, birth, death and renewal.

Designed by Martin Donlin for The Drummond Trust

Fabrication: Proto Glass Studios.