Three Sisters

Project Details

Dimensions: 21.5cm x 16.5cm x 21cm (w x h x d)

Weight: 4.5kg

Limited Edition: 8

Date: 1994

Three Sisters

I am a huge admirer of Henry Moore and I love Anton Chekhov’s writing too, so put the two together and I have the inspiration for Three Sisters.

I would love to enlarge this work which at present is just a maquette, so this is another work which I would love to have commissioned and then I can get to work in the studio to work with Richard Clarke, a professional sculptural agrandisseur, and with his pantograph, enlarge all three figures to perhaps life and a quarter in size.

The existing casting is in bronze and is No 1 of an edition of 8.  Nos. 2 to 8 can be cast to order.

A major enlargement would be an edition of, 3 at 2.4m high cast in bronze.

Wishbone

Project Details

Dimensions (cm): 26 x 22 x 23 (w x d x h)

Weight: 6.7kg

Limited Edition: 8

Date: 1994

Wishbone

An amusing little bronze with a piece of wood as a found object and a wishbone from a very special Christmas. I always loved Cowboys and Indians when I was little and some of my favourite films in later life include: City Slickers, High Noon, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and best of all, Dances with Wolves.

1942 Neil the Cowboy!

I always imagine hearing that laid back, cowboy ‘twangy’ American accent when I look at this sculpture and expect Kirk Douglas to appear outside a tavern in a dusty mid-west town and call for his horse…”Hey Wishbone”!

It is an edition of 8 in bronze.  The photos are of 1/8 cast by Burleighfield and as I love the work it has never been out of my personal collection and therefore not previously been offered for sale. It is now available to order.

Victor Ludorum

Project Details

Dimensions (cm): 30 x 40 x 52 (w x d x h)

Weight: 11.4kg

Date: 1994

Victor Ludorum

This young athlete is a bronze casting, mounted on a wooden plinth, with all four sides made deep enough and angled to take individual silver shields to mark a number of years of award winners at a school where such an award would be deemed appropriate.

Whenever I look at it I find myself wondering whether it is a diver or a gymnastic tumbler.  Whichever it is, it is the final stride before they perform their athletic feat.

As I made it quite awhile ago it is time I gifted it to a suitable establishment. I am sure one day the opportunity will present itself… things usually happen for a reason!

I hope that one day I will meet the winner of a VICTOR LUDORUM, receiving this award on which they would have their name engraved, with the date, on a silver shield.

Speak to us of Children

Project Details

Dimensions: 115cm x 10cm x 20cm (h x w x d)

Patination: Black

Original Limited Edition: 8 (fully sold)

Date: 1994

Speak to us of Children

This was the next Kahlil Gibran theme I tackled after making Almitra into a real person!

Gibran wrote very beautifully…

“Your children are not your children,

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you.

And though they are with you they belong not too you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls.

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves the bow that is stable”.

Kahlil Gibran – ‘The Prophet’ – Heinemann

My bronze sculpture echoes the sentiment in this lovely poem…

There is an enlarged version of this work which was a unique 15 foot bronze, cast for Zahhem Construction in London and I am told it was sent to Beirut to be installed at the Gibran Library at BUC – Beirut University College. I have never seen an in situ photograph of the work I made for them.

I am in the process of making a new edition of this work and will post the development process on here with regular updated pictures.