Wendy Ramshaw, Columbus Screen, 2000

Geometric patterns form the basis of much of the work of leading jewellery designer Wendy Ramshaw and this striking enclosure in Canary Wharf is no different.

The Columbus Screen takes its name from the courtyard it surrounds.

The design for the gates is based on the navigational charts of Christopher Columbus, namely the mappa mundi, housed in Greenwich Museum and believed to be the explorer’s only surviving map. Wendy said: “It was extraordinarily beautiful. I incorporated my interpretation of the main feature of the map, a circular interplanetary diagram composed of a series of circular rings randomly spaced with stars, within the design of the screen.�

Some 15m long and 1.1m high at its lowest point this is the artist’s largest work to date.

Wendy Ramshaw was made a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers in 1972 and in 2003 she received a CBE for services to art.