Sculpture

I (Steve) have been interested in sculpture all my life. When I was a kid I made models out of plasticine and pipe cleaners. I was never really interested in things like airfix kits, only stuff envisaged and made from raw materials. At the age of 16, in 1967, I went to Art School for a year. Apart from temporarily losing what faith I had in my ability, the main thing I got out of it was the joy of working in three dimensions and with printing techniques.

I made an occasional something over the years, out of wood, play dough, sand or snow, some more realistic, some abstract. A weekend course at the Sculpture Lounge rekindled my interest in metal sculpture and I’ve become steadily more involved with it. The first thing I made was a mobius strip based sculpture and several of the works below in the same weekend. I’ve been adding to the collection and have been getting the odd request. This year I decided to make a butterfly for someone and in the process Ruth requested one for our garden at the same time.

As a result of the popularity of these attempts, I recently I hired extra time in the studio to try to bring about a vision I had for a host of butterflies. I added Comma to the original Ringlet. These are popular so I will make some more.

Here are some more examples.

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