This week I finally finished the big bronze piece that I’ve been working on! I am so pleased, as I desperately wanted this piece to be shown in the rising stars exhibition in March.

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It’s taken a long old journey from it’s wood and wax construction to the finished bronze – a total of 55 working hours! Here’s a little montage of it’s journey:

Beaulieu (2016) Photography: Rosie Wesley
Collecting bark
Collecting bark
Drawings from the space
Piecing together
Piecing together
Wax infills
Wax infills
Finished wax/wood model
Spruing up
Spruing up
In-between dips
The pour
De-shelling
De-shelling
Grit-blasting
Grit-blasting
Adding in drawings
Adding in drawings
Beginnings of patination
Patination
‘Beaulieu’s Silver Bark’ (2017)

 

That’s my only update for this week, but thought it would be nice to map out how far this piece has come!

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If you’d like to see it in the flesh, or rather ‘bronze’, come to The New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham for the Rising Stars Exhibition which runs from 4th March – 15th April!