Artwork for Christine Baxter
Sunworshipper in bronze resin verdigris
Nixie sculpture, 3/4 life-sized in bronze resin verdigris
Curled cat, life sized in bronze resin verdigris
Wood Nymph sculpture in bronze resin
Newborn Lamb in iron resin
Siesta / Woman, bronze sculpture with verdigris patina
The Dream, garden sculpture in bronze resin
Listening Hare in iron resin
Details
My work is predominantly figurative and representational, but the representation is just the vehicle. What I am exploring and investigating is how to connect with the emotional response of the viewer. Whilst making a piece I am consciously trying to understand the emotions that I am having towards it. Hoping for a similar dialogue and emotional response from the viewer.
I come from a family of artists and craftspeople. My great, great, grandfather was a wrought iron gate maker, my grandfather was a woodcarver who trained at Kensington School of Art, my mother studied fashion design, my father was a landscape designer and gardener. Making and drawing is in my bones. I have trouble thinking of anything else to do but make things!
I am a figurative sculptor, working mostly in clay, wax and plaster. I make work both for the garden and the home. Casting my work into iron resin, bronze resin, stone and bronze.
I completed my art foundation at Cambridge College of Technology under the inspiring tutorage of the sculptor Mike Gilespie, Epstein's former assistant.
I then studied at Camberwell of Art in the early ’80s where I was lucky to be one of the last students to receive traditional formal training in figurative sculpture.
I exhibit in various galleries across the midlands and west country. I also exhibit in up to 10 country garden shows across the UK each year.
John Noott, Bluestone, Burford - Le Souk, Bradford Gallery. and Court Robert Arts.
