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| this image as on Google Streetview |
The image above shows the entrance of a house in a suburb in the northeast of the municipality of Lloret de Mar, a city with some 38.000 inhabitants, located along the Mediterranean Sea in Catalonia, Spain.
The house is located along the Avinguda Roca Grossa and has a fairly large garden with a variety of decorations.
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| this image (May 2025) and the next six courtesy of Sophie Lepetit |
Life and works
This art environment is most likely a creation of H.H. Dijks, because a plaque in the garden, dated July 2007, is signed with this name.
Such a name is not Spanish, but rather reminds one of the Netherlands, where about a hundred families have that name.
This assumption is supported by the name of the site, Casa Crailo, because Crailo is a hamlet, part of the municipality of Huizen in the Netherlands.
Another indication is that the garden has explanatory signs with texts in Spanish, English and ... Dutch.
On a video made in 2020 by Serflac about interesting places in the province of Girona, there are several minutes of images of this art environment (see documentation), but as far as could be determined, so far no review in Spanish has been published regarding this art environment.
The only text publicly available is written in English, an article by Jo Farb Hernandez, published in 2014 in Spaces Archive. This article does not indicate that she had met the non-professional artist who created the site.
It is clear, however, that in 2014 the art environment was already quite well stocked with creations.
The decorated garden includes plaques depicting deer drinking from a creek (second from the top) or a warrior brandishing a spear (below left).
There are also various three-dimensional creations, such as the ship called Sea Cloud (third from the top) and various animal representations, including various birds, like eagles, herons and waterfowls, like the ons right-below.
There is also a horseman, with a cross on his chest, piercing a writhing dragon.
The art environment was created on a spacious site, which is heavily overgrown with trees and other greenery, and which is situated on a street corner, where a side street ends.
The garden continues backwards for a considerable length along that side street, separated from the street by a low wall on which a transparent metal fence stands.
Here and there, small sculptural ensembles can also be seen along that fence.
Documentation
* Artcle (2014) by Jo Farb Hernandez on the website SPACES Archive
* Series of photos (May 2025) by Sophie Lepetit on Facebook
* Video Provincia de Girona Trip (YouTube, 2020, Casa Crailo: 24'48"- 29'24") by Serflac
H.H. Dijks
Casa Crailo,
155 Avinguda Roca Grossa,
17310 Lloret de Mar,dept Girona, region Catalonia, Spain
can be seen from the road
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