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Chasing the Curve – Ancaster Weatherbed on Portland stone plinth.
Unique, hand carved sculpture
“Chasing the Curve” is one of Martin’s most evocative pieces – both in form and in the story it carries. While it’s often described as an elegant figurative sculpture with fluid, feminine lines the deeper narrative lies in its title and the process behind it.
The phrase “Chasing the Curve” describes the sculptors ongoing pursuit of the perfect line—creating an elusive arc formed by the garment so that it feels just right in the hand and to the eye. It’s about the sculptor’s instinct: that moment when a curve isn’t just a shape, but a feeling. This piece captures that pursuit—both the physical act of sculpting and the emotional drive to find balance, grace, and flow in form.
Martin has sculpted multiple versions in stone and bronze with heights varying between 12 cm and 1.8 metres with each iteration refining the gesture, the tension, the release. This repetition is almost meditative for the sculptor and is part of the story. It’s not just about the final shape and depth of the garments curve and its relationship to the figures, but the journey to get there. In that sense, “Chasing the Curve” becomes a metaphor for the creative process itself: always reaching, never quite settling, always sculpting toward something just out of reach.
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Giant Bulrush & Reeds Sculpture Forged Steel & Galvanized Height 350cm x 180/120cms dia approx.
Ian Gill: I have drawn my inspiration from Alice In Wonderland. Just imagine what it must feel like to be a small creature on the edge of a pond with these giant monolithic bulrush & reeds towering into the sky!
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Cold cast bronze resin (also available in bronze) Limited Edition of 8 Height 110cm x width 56cm x depth 22cm
Icarus wanted to explore the freedom and joy of flight so fully that he ignored his father’s warnings. He flew too high and too close to the sun that the wax on his wings melted, the feathers burned and he came crashing down; but not before he managed to experience the freedom and exhilaration of the flight.
Icarus Ascending II can be seen as the spiritual aspect of Icarus, after the death of the mortal body now able to be completely free to ascend into the spiritual realms.
Never regret thy fall O Icarus of the fearless flight, For the greatest tragedy of them all Is to never to feel the burning light.
– Oscar Wilde
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“Using Corten steel my idea was to create giant monolithic columns towering into the sky. Then cutting out spherical seed heads into the steel allowing the dandelion puff balls to be blown away in the breeze.” – Ian Gill
Ian Gill Trade Stand Chelsea 2022. PhotoCredit Mark SpencerIan Gill Trade Stand Chelsea 2022. PhotoCredit Mark SpencerIan Gill Trade Stand Chelsea 2022. PhotoCredit Mark Spencer
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This colony of ‘barnacles’, pressed and fused from polished stainless steel, appears at first as solid as a pebble on the beach but on close inspection present a perforated or ‘porous’ structure. The material using the pressing techniques developed by the artist to take advantage of this beautiful, but highly resistant recycled material.
Associations are often made between highly polished hard metal and qualities of strength, cleanliness, beauty, perfection and therefore high value and status. Here the artist invests those qualities upon a lone, stranded, erratic boulder scale heart shaped seed. The seed; vital genetic dispersal vessel, prime actor in evolution and natural selection, is critical to our own presence on Earth. Essential, not just for our own reproduction but also in the regeneration of all the living branches of our ecosystem upon which we are dependant is often un-regarded and certainly does not hold as high a status and value as the polished metals we mine, refine, polish and wear as a badge of success. This sculpture is a champion for those trillions of smaller unseen life forms, magnified and suited in clothes that may help us to associate the vessel with its value.
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The Portal Orb is a surreal mix of fact and fantasy.
This sphere of organically styled wires might be made of thick steel bars but appears lightweight or buoyant due to the much larger open space it encloses. The network reminds us of living pathways in cells, veins, leaves, river deltas and more.
The fact that your eye and even your hand can pass through the surface of the sculpture is a reminder of the porous nature of all things. Things that we often prefer to consider contained, tough, private or ‘protected’; such as cell walls, shell, skin, stone, the mind, foliage, and atmospheres.
The tapering tunnel creates movement, literally provoking the viewer to orbit the sphere and seek the view through the centre. We want to see the other side; but we already know what is there. Such a simple form with such a curious portal effect.
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Penny works with various materials, particularly recycled steel bits and pieces. They have their own beauty as exceptionally well made mechanical elements, that once formed a part of a structure that created its own momentum and dynamic. She likes to recycle and repurpose those discarded metal elements and give them a new life and renewed energy in her figurative Blown Away series of sculptures.
These sculptures capture a moment in time, a thought or emotion clearly defined and expressed, inanimate, discarded items becoming whole again in a sculpture that is visually explosive and passionate.
The Kiss wishes to show the electric energy and anticipation we have when getting close to someone special for the first time. Despite the uncomproising hard materials used there is a tenderness and familiarity to its features and an engaging delicacy as their hands touch and gazes meet.
Each sculpture is handmade by Penny and each edition is entirely unique due to the different pieces used in each one.
See also Kismet, the other piece in the Blown Away series:
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