On 4 August 2014, the now iconic evolving work by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, opened at the Tower of London. Each of the 888,246 poppies in the Tower's moat represented one British life lost in the First World War (FWW). This article uses a ...
Bright and bold, it's hard not to be awestricken by the spectacular beauty of poppies. But this bloom does more than light up any landscape—it also serves as an important symbol to our veterans, honoring those we've lost.
working at the camp for the summer. He can get down the hill in 10 minutes, he says, and up it in 20. We walk it in a sedate 28 minutes and we don’t bother timing the descent as we use it to unwind, decompress, look at the wild poppies and bluebells and wonder suspiciously ab...
In collaboration with Derbyshire ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper, the Tower of London's installation of thousands of ceramic poppies was unveiled on 5th August, one hundred years since the first full day of Britain's involvement in the First World War.eContent Team,...