A Home

Jim and Helen Ede created in their home a new approach to sharing art - a place where objects and beauty were woven into the ordinary textures of everyday life. There was no hierarchy; a grouping of stones would be as carefully placed as a painting. 

Kettle’s Yard, as Jim Ede described, was “a space, an ambience, a home.” Every detail was attended to with care - the light, the quiet, the thoughtful placement of each object - so that visitors might feel at ease and experience a living connection to art. “I used to like to feel,” he wrote, “that each newcomer could feel the first to enter in upon that quiet.”

"It was while I was abroad in 1954 that I found myself first dreaming of the idea of somehow creating a living place where works of art could be enjoyed, inherent to the domestic setting, where young people could be at home unhampered by the greater austerity of the museum or public art gallery and where an informality might infuse and underlings informality. I wanted, in a modest way, to use the inspiration I had had from beautiful interiors, houses of leisured elegance, and to combine it with the joy I had felt in individual works seen in museums and with the all embracing delight I had experienced in nature, in stones, in flowers, in people."

This celebration of creativity, material, and beauty as part of the flow of daily life, continues to guide Flow Gallery.