Arriving in Sophie Ryder's isolated home is like arriving in a surreal landscape populated by giant mythological creatures, half human, half hare and enormous strange shapes that loom up out of the fields surrounding her house. She works and lives here, sculpting in a vast barn and living in a tiny house she built from scratch with stone quarried from the fields around her.? Every corner of her hand-built house contains evidence of her creativity - it is a shrine to her art and to her practical building skills.? Mosaics, stained glass and arched windows enhance the little building and give it character and substance so that it looks more like a converted chapel than a new build.