Elegance & Form
Summer Sculpture Show
Opens Friday 1st July 2016
The Summer Sculpture Show runs until Sunday 25th September
Willa AshworthLiving and working in the Somerset countryside gives me endless inspiration and my love of gardening has lead me to create a wide range of designs that combine practical and aesthetic qualities. Plant supports that are functional but also pleasant to the eye. Left to weather naturally to give a more organic appearance that blends beautifully with the planting scheme of any garden. A fire dish that will keep you warm and add an attractive feature to your patio even when it’s not in use. Other pieces are simply designed to add another dimension and focal point. Changing with the weather and light they will always attract your attention and complement their natural surroundings.
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Nicola AxeNicola Axe is a Devon based sculptor with a passion for stone carving.
The material is challenging but the process of creating she finds deeply fulfilling. She loves to carve the human form and her interests in spiritual development provide the vision and meaning in much of her work. Nicola likes, where approriate, to incorporate crystals and fossils with the stone. |
Lynn BakerLynn enjoys working in both two and three dimensions and works with both hot and cold glass using its unique optical qualities as a means of expression and communication. Her work revolves around the underlying themes of ‘movement and change’ and much of her work has a hidden meaning. Lynn’s glass daisies make a bold statement in any garden along with an element of fun. They glisten with droplets of rain after a passing shower and remind us how important water is both to us and the survival of our planet. Her cocoons trap air inside the glass, in effect trapping a moment in time.
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Christine BaxterChristine sculpts in clay or wax to make beautiful figures based on the human figure or animal forms. She then casts them either into cast stone, bronze resin or bronze. Her figurative work is always directly from observation. “She says: “I love natural forms, really looking and understanding the structure, the volume, the weight and balance, gives you the tools to play with body language that communicates with the viewer; a small twist in a pose, an emphasis of a muscle, a strain in the balance, all these things speak volumes in the intuitively understood visual language of the body. A language that transcends time and culture. These are the things that excite me when making a new sculpture. Christine works directly from observation, and then works with the poetry and grace of the pose and subject.
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Caroline Bromley-GardenerCaroline works in clay to produce sculpture in bronze and bronze resin, on a Wildlife and Equestrian theme. Brought up and living in the countryside, it’s the constant sightings of Wildlife, the flight of a Barn Owl, the fox slinking through the hedgerow, which inspires her work. Horses are another passion, and having ridden all her life she understands and tries to convey the curious mix of strength and sensitivity of the Horse
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Jenny ColeJenny is an artist and blacksmith who makes individual handmade pieces for the home and garden. Inspired by the beauty of the outdoors Jenny makes furniture with a sculptural quality, designed to add an individual statement to a home or garden. Jenny began working with metal in 2003 and is one of only a handful of women who has a degree in Artist Blacksmithing. Her recent work includes Chrysanthemum flowers, which can be used as candle holders or bird feeders and are made in three different sizes up to a metre and a half in height.
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Belinda CoyneBelinda trained at Brighton on the wood, metal, ceramics and plastics BA, followed by a PGCE from the London Institute, she has continued to teach Design in Brighton alongside producing her own three dimensional work in a variety of media. Her current work is inspired by the plant kingdom in par-ticular the intricate flower and seed heads of Cow parsley and Dandelions. She studies and interprets these beautiful forms and produces aluminium and acrylic sculptures for outdoor spaces.
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Paul CoxFor me being an artist is a form of constant play and enquiry in many forms and on many levels……my work is born from the bonding of internal and external experiences and the conclusion of a piece is the point at which it exists by itself with me being the link in a process of creation. I really enjoy creating objects that enhance the natural beauty of the garden, many of them are huge. These large sculptures can take many weeks of labour to design and build. So it is very liberating to have developed smaller works that have enabled anyone the ability to own. I believe that we all should be able to own beautiful handmade items made here in the UK . Based in Sussex, I am an award winning sculptor who exhibits internationally. I was awarded the Henry Moore scholarship and sponsored by Time Out magazine to study MA sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London.
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Richard CresswellRichard's work ranges from figurative through stylised to his abstracts, working almost exclusively in metal and using the nature of the materials to give colours and textures to the pieces along with form. The one critical component always present is curves. He find curves everywhere I look in the sky in reflections in water in humans, and more and more in man made objects. Curves are beautiful to look at but better if you can run your hand along one and Richard loves to see people touching his sculptures and getting something extra from the feel of the piece under their fingers.
Richard studied art for 4 years at Warwick college of Art and Birmingham City University, where he won the Ikon Gallery prize for the best in my degree show along with a ‘first’, In the years since he has been developing his own style and voice as a sculptor. |
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