As an addendum to this I recently read about some more Catholic martyrs from Chideock. There was once a castle there and was a significantly Roman Catholic area in the first Elizabethan era and to the present day. (Picture borrowed from the Chideock website.)
Archive | Sculpture
Ceramics and Sculpture
This delightful group, picture courtesy of Jan’s Antiques in LA, is after a model by Clodion and illustrates Terra Cotta (Baked clay) A fun mug on the right from Jerusalem, a gold fish in the bottom, about 1953. This is parian ware again (Baked clay) from a collection at Athelhampton House. This is a child’s […]
Sculpture Figures and Animals
Building one’s own website is a bit frustrating. I am now going “live” with mine at last. “Under Construction” so please forgive.https://robertmileham.com/
Rodin’s sketch book
I am again indebted to Chris Miller for this delightful link to Rodin’s sketchbook. I wonder how many gems like this there are on the net?http://www.rodinmuseum.org/micro_sites/exhibitions/rodinSketchbook/flash2.html
Female Artists
I subscribe to Digital Consciousness and in their news for April 2008 I spotted this New Renowned Artists March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and the 2008 theme is “Women’s Art: Women’s Vision”. In honour of this,biographies of the following female renowned artists have been addedto the list of renowned artists. See […]
Anteros, (Eros) Shaftesbury Memorial, Piccadilly.
As Punch so well shows, watch your back Felipe! Alfred Gilbert who I have mentioned before is one of my favourite sculptors. Not all his work is to my liking; however Eros had a special place in my heart, long before I started my career as a sculptor or considered its aesthetic merits in detail. […]
No Mr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, more Sculpture please
It interests me that such a celebrated academic of international dimension should cast such a shadow upon the hard working sculptors of Great Britain in his article in the Evening Standard on the 7th of March. It has taken that long for me to count to ten! I do not need to defend any sculptor’s […]
Chris, Miles & ARC
Chris Miller is “on about” the ARC again. I am very glad for the ARC it is essential. The submissions to the competition of 2007 are perhaps not up to some of the best of the past years. Miles has done a noble job in his critique. I am less enthusiastic but he has made […]
Sculpture History Tour
Thank you Dianne Durante for telling us about this History of Sculptur Tour here;http://forgottendelights.blogspot.com/2008/02/upcoming-history-of-sculpture-tour-at.html
My Sculpture Website
My website at Artituk is down for the moment so please bear with me for a few days. There are plenty of pictures to upload, I just need a day or two to sort it all out.
