Panic: Visions Of The Horned God In The English Country Garden

Sara Hannant
With essays by Ronald Hutton and Simon Costin

230x170mm
160pp
Over 70 images
Full colour throughout

Shipping Late November

Wild and exciting, the Greek god Pan induces both fear and awe; at times, he is dangerous, stirring panic and creating pandemonium. His name, coincidentally, means ‘all’.

Photographer Sara Hannant takes us on a magical journey throughout England’s gardens and parks, giving us insights into how the Horned God has manifested within classical and contemporary sculpture. Captured since 2024, Hannant’s dreamlike images, made in-camera, evoke the untamed and mystical qualities of the Great God Pan and his equivalents.

These photographs investigate the role of Pan as a personification of nature, fertility and the wild. When the Victorians saw the environment as fragile and threatened by industrialisation and urbanisation, the Horned God symbolised a reunion with the natural world.

Now, in our age of climate emergency, Pan returns, rousing us to recognise our own place within nature.