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Archive | Sculpture
10p for some Tulips
Supermarket “nearly out of date stock”, has brightened us all up.
My Art
Figures and Animals. http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_314082829.html(Lovelands in USA move figure sculpture) Up to now I have found that demand for my services as a sculptor has been split almost exactly 50/50 figures and animals. Only one of my figures was clothed. Only two were male. 75% of buyers of female figures were woman. All but one has […]
Prince T and RT
Here are a couple of Sculptors I particularly like with links to other works or their site.Prince Paul Troubetzkoyhttp://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/pubs/1912/AIC1912Troubetzkoy_comb.pdf If this link does not work and you are truly interested let me know and I can send you the pdf. and Rudolph Tegnershttp://www.tegnersvenner.dk/eftertid_d/data15.htm
A of B
Here is a sneak preview of one of my current works. She is destined for a river bower in Buckinghamshire. The first picture is the maquette, in the second she is at an early stage of the main cay.
The herb garden
It is now December and we still have herbs growing in the garden. The temperature here last night was 15 c. I listened to some Gilbert and Sullivan last night after a long absence. I had forgotten just how much lighter one feels with it especially having just got through “The Witches’ Sabaoth”, but then […]
Pip
This is a finished maquette of one of the poses for a new commission for a garden in Buckinghamshire. Another of my poses was chosen but this one was very popular.
Dorset Stone Sculptor, Mike Chapman
I hope you like Mike’s work. This one is at the top of the steps into St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square. It is amazingly simple and was commissioned for the Millenium in 2000. “And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us” St. John 1, 1:14
German Sculpture?
I am loathed to put my head above the parapet in this very healthy discussion over the merits of German sculpture, but I’ll risk it! I remember a very “Teutonic” wooden sculpture which had been looted from a large country house in Germany at the end of WW2 but because of its Nazi connections the […]
Not so crazy aims
I think we should all have an idea where we would like to be in 10 years time I too hope it happens in 2, great stuff and Good luck Jo, I think quite a lot of us have the same aim. Have a look at http://www.crazygoals.co.uk/main.aspx?pg=featuredgoal.aspx@@@IDGoal=66779
