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SCULPTURES
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.
Maurice Blik PPRBS
This is a sculpture in which the traditions of the past embrace the ambitions of the future to celebrate new direction and purpose. The combined strengths surge forward, aspiring to meet new challenges and opportunities.
A survivor of the Holocaust, Maurice Bilk has overcome the traumas of his early life and focused his energy on creating sculptures that evoke movement, freedom and life. Born to Jewish parents in Amsterdam in 1939, during the Second World War, at the age of four, Blik’s father was sent to Auschwitz, while Blik, his sister pregnant mother and grandmother were sent to the notorious Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Blik experienced a lifetime of unimaginable tragedy and horrors until being liberated with his mother and oldest sister in 1945 by the Cossacks. Blik lost both his father infant sister grandmother and numerous close relatives to the concentration camps. The resounding effect of such tragedy at a young age has not been lost on the sculptor. Yet it’s this pain and torment that has helped grow Blik’s innate need to recreate life in his materials.
THE RAM
David Williams Ellis
David Williams-Ellis’ sculptures are inspired by the romanticism of Rodin and Bourdelle, they are noted for their classical balance and poise and above all for a sense of movement and vitality captured within the form. It’s the powerful energy of David’s work that thrusts its way beyond the ornamental and gives it its definitive contemporary edge.
SPARTAN HORSE
Louisa Forbes
Louisa blends themes of religion and mythology into her classical figurative sculpture and is inspired by the idea of a connection with people thousands of years ago. She uses clay gathered from her own land which strengthens the interrelation between her as an artist, her home and the people who were there before.
The coarseness of the clay dictates the way she builds and works the surface of her pieces, giving them an exciting, contemporary, and individual finish married with a classical understanding and approach.
Stuart Anderson
British sculptor Stuart Anderson works in both clay and wax, and casts his own bronzes using the lost wax process at his studio foundry. He was a recipient of the Henry Moore Foundation award, Voya Kondick Trust award and Angeloni Prize at the Royal College of Art. He has made extensive further sculptural research in India, Cambodia, Italy and Greece.
In his work he aims to convey the vitality of hounds in strong sculptural forms. He is often drawn to the elegant shapes created by greyhounds, Lurchers and Whippets at play or rest. He models from life, bringing these fine animals into his studio.
Holly Hickmore
After studying at Hartpury College Holly trained at The Hungarian School of Art, here she was exposed to a classical education with a strong grounding in anatomy. Holly strives to find the essence of her subject, to create a felt response through a continual dialogue between form, material and subject. “Thoroughbred Filly” was inspired after visiting a filly at Tweenhills stud who was by the late ROARING LION and out of a beautiful dam called COMMON KNOWLEDGE, both of which were stars of the Qatar Racing operation.
“Marengo” is a piece created to celebrate the elegance and power of the horse.
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