In 2023 James Tunnard Studio was commissioned by the Darent Valley Landscape Scheme to create a new installation for Lullingstone County Park inspired by the surrounding landscape and the areas natural habitat and history.

The natural beauty of Lullingstone Country Park and the Darent Valley has inspired creativity since Roman times and is inextricably linked to the nineteenth-century Romantic landscape artist, Samuel Palmer, who lived in Shoreham in the heart of the Darent Valley. Palmer sketched, painted and wrote about the landscape around him, to convey his ideas about the physical and spiritual connection between people and the land.

Making use of a 150-year-old 4-metre-long oak tree that had fallen in the grounds, the sculpture created, titled Ripple echoes structures and patterns of movement found in nature in a simplified geometric form.

Local poets and children from nearby schools were invited to write poetry inspired by the location and it's history. The poems created have been published by the studio in a collection to accompany the project and selected lines of poetry have been engraved onto the sculpture.

Ripple is permanently located in the Orchid Bank wildflower meadow in Lullingstone County Park and provides a communal seating area where visitors can rest and enjoy the surrounding landscape, with views out across the valley and down to the River Darent below.