Tanya Russell has become well known over the last 30 years for her life-like and vibrant dog sculptures. Tanya’s particular passion is animals and animal welfare, and many of her sculptures have been sculpted to raise money for charities.
Tanya’s training started with an apprenticeship with her sculptor parents, Edwin Russell FRBS and Lorne McKean FRBS. Over the years she has taken on many public and private commissions, nationally and internationally, with many large pieces around London.
Author of Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure (published by A & C Black, 2012), Tanya is also founder of the Art Academy in London Bridge.
The Artist Daniel Cordell was born in Hertfordshire, 1979. He now lives and creates in Devon.
Daniel studied at Loughborough University School of Art and Design, where he proudly gained a first class BA honours degree in fine art sculpture. He also spent three months studying sculpture at the prestigious Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.
Although Daniels skills are broad and likes to work with steel and stone, He is instinctively drawn to wood and has specialised in Large scale green wood carving and constructing since 2001.
Carving by Daniel Cordell
Visiting and living in different cultures around the world, has always been a passion for Daniel. From these experiences he has been driven to carve a series of sculptures he calls ‘Dwellings’. His work illustrates styles of homes, from slums to castles. Daniel is not drawn to architecture of any particular period but more the feelings that buildings evoke.
He enjoys carving groups of buildings without a plan. They just evolve; one just fits in or joins another, just how many settlements evolve over time. This method feels more like the creativity of sketching, rather than a rigid process like using a pointing machine to carve a figure in stone.
Daniel also has a passion for birds and natural forms found in nature. He has decided to exhibit a variety of his work this year reflecting his different interests.
Daniel’s style has evolved over the years. He use to like to sand his sculptures very smooth. Now Daniel is drawn to creating and leaving the rough textural grooves that come naturally to the chainsaw. They can help to give energy and flow to surfaces, and allow a level of honesty of the making process to the viewer.
Come and see three of Daniel’s magical sculptures. Daniel has carefully selected the best locally, ethically and naturally durable Cypress and Cedar wood for these sculptures. They are finished with Danish oil.
Katie Green makes sculptures finished with mosaic, which she considers as “the creation of one whole statement from many tiny pieces of glass and mirror”. She has been making mosaic garden sculptures for nearly twenty years, creating pieces of all sizes that she hopes can become a part of the environment in which they are placed.
Over the years, Katie has exhibited in many places, including Hidcote Manor Gardens; The Sculpture Show, Kent; Arley Hall, Cheshire; Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe; The Spring Fair, Malvern; Painswick Rococo Gardens; Cookham Festival, Berkshire; Henley Festival,Oxfordshire; Wyndcliffe Court,Monmouthshire; Godinton Gardens, Ashford; The Sculpture Park, Farnham; Donnington Hall,Lincoln.
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As of 2018, we will be hosting wedding parties in our purpose built venue on-site. The happy couple can stay at a very special luxury hut made from an old water tank and guests can sleep in any of a number of shepherds’ huts in the park.
Well, 2018 is here, and we’ve been working hard to acquire new work to exhibit and offer for sale, including some from artists we have not worked with before. We’re very excited, and we look forward to welcoming you to the park soon to enjoy them with us.
The outdoor exhibition, which features work from some of Britain’s most exciting and innovative sculptors, is called “Elemental”.
Tanya Russell has become well known over the last 30 years for her life-like and vibrant dog sculptures. Tanya’s particular passion is animals and animal welfare, and many of her sculptures have been sculpted to raise money for charities.
