“It’s like the fruit tree in the garden of Eden. Fisher calls this “the incidental fitness maze”.Īnd then there’s the forbidden element the need to discover what’s at the end of the maze. There can be a fitness element to mazes, with steps and bridges among the features, for example. At the end, visitors should feel that teamwork won the day. Secondly, they must be sociable, an experience shared with friends.
“As an entertainer, it would be very bad of me to go on too long,” he says. And once you’ve reached the climax (or the end of the maze), there should be a quick exit. He stresses how, like a good movie, they shouldn’t last too long. So what makes a great maze? Firstly they must be entertaining.
The technical merit has to be a puzzle that is entertaining and challenging, so that you enjoy the maze with friends, while the artistic impression must inspire you and excite you with the storyline.” “It’s like ice skating: one part artistic impression, one part technical merit. He normally starts his design process with paper sketches, moving on to computers afterwards. The key to his trade, he says, is a combination of mathematics and artistry. He won't reveal what fees he commands, but he admits they’re not low. At one point, several years ago, he was being commissioned to design a new maze every 17 days. I couldn’t possibly tell you how much we were paid, but it was less than the cost of printing all new banknotes.”įisher’s unorthodox occupation can be quite lucrative. That’s why, when we agreed a one-off royalty, we could name our price. “They didn’t realise we had the copyright for the hedge design,” Fisher explains. (The one starring Sir Winston Churchill.)
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The Blenheim Palace Marlborough Maze provided quite a windfall for Fisher when the Bank of England used its centrepiece as a green foil patch on the back of its new £5 note in 2016. On the walls hang embroideries and photos of some of his creations: the Chateau de Thoiry maze near Paris, an Alice in Wonderland-themed maze in Dorset, and the Marlborough Maze at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire even a Guinness World Records certificate celebrating Fisher’s hand in creating the world’s largest hedge maze in China. In its centre is a small tower with mirrored walls inside, giving it the Tardis-like impression that it’s larger inside than outside.Ī stone’s throw away, on the other side of the garden, is Fisher’s office and workshop, the place where he dreams up new ways to get people lost. Fisher has even built his very own yew hedge maze in his back garden, in a village near Shaftesbury.
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