SCULPTURES “HARES” AND “TURTLES” Hamish Mackie Oxfordshire based Hamish Mackie is probably our best-known wildlife sculptor, creating both monumental and tabletop works. Beloved of children’s stories and Aesop’s Fables, the Hare is a creature long celebrated in literature, art and folklore. It is a recurring theme in Hamish Mackie’s work, the Hare being one of his favourite animals. The monumental bronze “Hares” was also on display at the 2022 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. “Turtles” was originally commissioned by a client in Barbados, Hamish has created a sculpture of three life-size sea turtles cast into bronze. There is a fluid energy to this bronze turtle’s sculpture, a sense of movement and lightness that evokes these nimble creatures who are so at home in the ocean.
THE THREE RIDERS Marie Ackers Initially inspired by the old master and “French Animalier”, French artist Marie Ackers has gone beyond realism and tradition to capture a contemporary interpretation of animals. In her work, Marie deconstructs the movements, trip down to pure lines, simplify the shapes, and identify the dynamic and the rhythms of the lines to produce contemporary and distinctively elegant sculpture inextricably associated with but yet completely independent of reality. Her inspiration comes from various sources from the “French animalier” to the simplicity and purity of Brancusi’s work, the shapes and presence of Henry Moore sculptures, the sharp and clean lines of Calder metal sculptures as well as Pompom, Lynn Chadwick, architecture old and modern.
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