Reclining Nude Redhead

A Sculpture or a Cityscape???

Project Details

Dimensions (cm): 18.5 x 15 x 38 (w x h x d)

Weight: 0.9kg (wooden maquette)

Date: 1997

Reclining Nude Redhead

With the idea of using the Ballhead Series as my signature, this is another work I have made using blocks of wood to build a contemporary reclining nude and, once again, thinking of an edition of 8 with different coloured heads as I described in the text about The Lost Planet.

I really do want to enlarge these works and make a statement with them.  I haven’t decided whether to cast this in bronze or to use another material, perhaps some form of stone, marble or granite.

A number of critics have said they are my best and most interesting works but I have done little to promote them and perhaps now is the time…

Some years ago, I had the wooden block replicated in polystyrene and sent them to China.  I received the blocks back as hand cut granite blocks, but they were not cut accurately enough and it didn’t do it for me.

That work is at home by one of our ponds keeping the frogs and newts company!

What say you about this sculpture actually being the initial model for a cityscape? Perhaps a new city in China?

One can dream but sometimes dreams can come true ………………………………..

Procreation

Project Details

Dimensions: 40cm x 25cm x 15cm (w x h x d)

Weight: 17.1kg

Date: 1990

Procreation

Designed and sculpted in 1990 the first casting of this work was purchased by the chairman of a major corporation, a well known household name, for his home in Brussels. Sadly his wife objected saying it was highly sexual, which I hadn’t really clocked at all when I made the work. You decide!

He had to move it to his office apparently, but he loved the work and I was pleased he owned it. For some years he had my red, wooden pattern maker’s maquette of Sterling in the foyer of the company HQ just outside London, overlooking the River Thames.

This work was displayed in the HQ of Walls and is now in the barn studio offices of Chichester Contemporary Art at West Ashling

STERLING WOOD PATTERN

‘PROCREATION’

This work, ‘Procreation’, was shown on the front cover of the cataloguie for my first major Sculpture Exhibition in 1989 at Waterman Fine Art Limited in Jermyn Street, St James, long before Offer Waterman started his own superb ‘Modern British’ gallery in Langton Street, Chelsea. It is one of the finest small galleries in London and a must visit for collectors.

I like the way the figure is stepping outside the boundaries as one often loves to do in real life.

Cast by Burleighfield and originally named Auriol, I renamed it Procreation.

It is in bronze and is patinated a rich golden brown and in an edition of 8.

Tom

Project Details

Dimensions (cm): 18.5 x 13.5 x 36 (w x d x h)

Weight: 5.7kg

Date: 1989

Tom

Tom is my ex wife Auriol’s son by birth, and when we married in 1992 she generously allowed me, with the sanction of Tom’s birth father, to adopt him as my son. Adoption papers state: ‘as if by birth‘.

For me, that was really huge and very important to my life. I had been sterilised when I had cancer twice in 1972 and my dream had always been to have a family, which of course had thereby been denied to me. I had known Tom since he was under 6 months old, and he knew me as Dad from a very young age, so he is bonded to me. I hope I am as good a father to him, as he is a son to me.

So here he is in 1989, a tiny boy being joyously tossed into the air by his proud and loving mother. He had a wonderfully happy upbringing here at Graingers, in glorious West Sussex and still lives nearby. I just said tiny by the way! He now towers above me at well over 6 foot.

He is a well-respected restorer of modern, classic sports and historic racing cars and uses his hand eye skills in a similar way to those attributes that I required when restoring badly damaged mouths in my past life as a Dental Surgeon. Those same skills are still with me and serve me as I make my sculptures.

This cast in bronze was made at the Burleighfield Foundry in 1989, when Tom was under 2 yrs old. It is a celebration of ‘ Mother and Child’. It is an edition of 8 and in March 2017 there are three of the editon still available.

Speak to us of Crime and Punishment

Project Details

Dimensions (cm): 23 x 17 x 54 (w x d x h)

Weight: 11kg

Limited Edition: 8

Date: 1994

Speak to us of Crime and Punishment

Another one of the 29 themes from Kahlil Gibran’s famous book, The Prophet.

“It is when your spirit goes wandering upon the wind, that you, alone and unguarded, commit a wrong unto others and therefore unto yourself.

And for that wrong committed must you knock and wait a while unheeded at the gate of the blessed.”

This bronze sculpture of mine echoes Gibran’s words…

The work is bronze and patinated black and in an Edition of 8. It was originally cast by The Burleighfield Foundry in Beaconsfield.

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