Cotswold Sculpture Park

Cotswold Sculpture Park Ltd

Category: Sculptor

  • John O’Connor

    John O’Connor

    About 

    John O’Connor: British artist, Sculptor.

    Born: 1967

    Trained: Sculpture Academy, London Bridge

    Work medium: Contemporary figurative

    An exaggeration of the figure is a reccuring theme in John’s work. Blending the physical with the emotional he explores the fabric of his own internal worlds. He approaches his work with an honest and open heart where he can share what he believes to be, ‘states of mind that are inherent in us all’. John demonstrates these universal states of mind and emotion with a visual dialogue we can all relate to, taking us on a journey to a place where familiarity and shared emotional expressions unite us. His works manage to reveal an intimate examination of our reflective self. His works are often personal, emotional and poetic.

    John sells his work to private collectors throughout the world.

  • Matt Stein

    Matt Stein

    Matt is a Bristol based sculptor. Known predominantly for his large-scale stainless steel and copper sculptures. He has recently evolved the work into tabletop wooden sculptures. Influenced by artists such as Brancusi, Rodin and Hepworth, Matt has developed his own vocabulary of form.

    Matt studied martial arts from the age of nine and continues to teach today. At art college he produced a series of figurative works that fused the dynamics of physical movement with martial art form. Later, Matt developed his frenetic energy into a singular energy and the sculpture range titled “Elements” was born in 2005. Elements is a group of six sculptures where Matt has harnessed the vibrant martial art energy to produce a simple form which now makes just one movement.

    The new work developed in 2020 has permitted the development of groups. Groupings have already featured in Matt’s work in commissions installed in Portishead, Brockworth and Cambridge. 

  • Pippa Unwin

    Pippa Unwin

    Pippa began her career as a children’s book illustrator, but was always interested in working in 3D; she studied Stonemasonry at Bath College and has been working self-employed as a stonemason for the last 17 years, doing restoration, memorials, fireplaces and working on pieces for Salisbury and Exeter cathedrals. The rest of the time, Pippa carves sculpture. – mainly animals and birds in limestone, marble and alabaster.

     pippaunwinsculptor.co.uk and Mewstone Masonry on Facebook and pippawin@instagram

  • Ed Elliott

    Ed Elliott

    Ed Elliott is an award-winning sculptor specialising in large scale figurative pieces, often designed with a specific site in mind. He works from his studio in rural Herefordshire (West Midlands, UK) and exhibits widely across the UK and abroad. He has received national acclaim for his innovative work in wood and bronze. With public pieces in six counties and selling work globally he is widely recognised for his ambitious pieces and his striking style. Limited Edition bronze casts now available.

    Image: Work in progress action shot – credit to John English Photography

    www.edelliott.co.uk

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  • Philippa Macarthur

    Philippa Macarthur

    Like so many artists Philippa discovers inspiration from natural objects – the forms of seedpods, leaf skeletons, pebbles or fallen branches, as well as intricate details seen down the microscope on her phone.
    Using hand-building processes, she focuses and imitates the multiple repetitions and patterns found in nature, and finds it a meditative process. Philippa is interested in the way we’re all different individuals, but together we make up a whole.
    Philippa likes her work to be seen in a garden context from where it originates. She likes her work to reflect both stillness and joy; so that whether on a balmy summer evening or dull winters’ day you can look at the work and smile.
    Work has been exhibited and sold in Garden Sculpture shows across the South, South West and Wales, and bought by The Surrey Sculpture Park.
    A member of The Oxford Sculpture Group and Cotswold Sculpture Association.

  • Rose Eva

    Rose Eva

    Although she has no formal practical art training, Rose Eva studied the history of art at the Courtauld Institute in London and went on to work as a specialist for Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers, a career which has provided an invaluable visual artistic education. 
     
    Rose works almost exclusively in marble and onyx – exotic and colourful stone, sourced from all over the world – creating sensuous sculptures based on the human form. For her, the sense of touch is as important as the sense of sight; a sculpture will reveal all its secrets only when examined with the hands as well as eyes. She has exhibited widely in the UK, as well as in Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore.  In 2015 she won the prestigious Humphreys Prize at the ING Discerning Eye exhibition in London.
  • Will Carr

    Will Carr

    The kinetic wind sculptures Will creates explores the relationship of geometry and form interacting in their environment.  The natural flows and influences of interactions in our world are demonstrated through the complex geometry and balance of the pieces.  Quickly developing a reputation for detailed realistic and abstract science based sculptures; Wills background in engineering as well as knowledge of weather and wind flow has lead to a natural progression in to kinetic sculptures.  Previous works include public installations for schools and universities with other commissions across the world.

    Exhibitions 2020

    The Brunswick Centre – London

    Delamore Arts – Delamore Estate Devon

    Doddington Hall Sculpture Exhibition – Lincoln

    Montcrieff Bray Gallery – Petworth, Sussex

    Canwood Gallery  –  Checkley, Herefordshire

    Hannah Peschar – Dorking, Surrey

    Burghley House – Sculpture Exhibition; Cambridgeshire

    Exhibitions 2019

    Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – London

    Fresh Air Sculpture – Quenington, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire

    Delamore Arts Exhibition  –  Delamore Estate, Devon

    Beaulieu Motorsports Museum – Hampshire

    Burghley House – Sculpture Exhibition; Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

    Borde Hill – Sculpture Exhibition; Sussex

    Montcrieff Bray Gallery – Sussex

    Canwood Gallery  –  Checkley, Herefordshire

    Art in the Marches  –  Kington, Herefordshire

    Previous Exhibitions Click Here

    Public Commissions

    Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester  –  Barley Ears

    Eardisley School, Herefordshire  –  Autumn Archway

    Manilla Flight Park, Australia  –  Wedge-tailed Eagle

    Sacred Kingdom, Texas  –  Geodesic Crystal Energy Forms

    Fordhill Community Farm, Shropshire  –  Beetle Sculpture

    Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin  –  Encompassed

  • Jilly Sutton

    Jilly Sutton

    Jilly Sutton trained as a sculptor at Exeter College of Art. Her career developed in Nigeria, where the art forms that flourish there (particularly carvings and textiles) fired her imagination. She researched and worked with indigo dye both in Africa and back home in England. Now, her inspiration comes from the ancient trees and woodland that surround her studio and the home she shares with her architect husband on the banks of the River Dart in Devon.  

    Using locally fallen or felled timber, Sutton carves large heads and figures, sandblasting and liming to give them their unique, grainy character. Although her work is mainly figurative, often with an overriding sense of serenity, abstraction also features in her oeuvre.    		  
    In her own words: “The warmth of wood, the quality of the grain, and the life embodied in each and every tree, together with a veneration of the head as a sculptural form … this is my passion. However, working with the vagaries of the organic, still living, nature of the material, and pushing the boundaries of its plasticity, is the constant challenge.”  

    Jilly Sutton’s sculptures have been exhibited internationally and are in public and private collections in the UK and abroad. Her carved wooden portrait of the former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion is in the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection.    		  
  • Liz Tiranti

    Liz Tiranti

    BASED IN BRIGHTON, FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR LIZ TIRANTI  ESTABLISHED INSPIRED MOSAICS IN THE MID 1990’s…

    After two decades focusing on working with schools and communities to produce their own mosaic art the studio now specialises in bespoke architectural commissions and decorative mosaic art.  In recent years Liz has developed a range of statement piece mirrors and a collection of vibrant one-off garden sculptures.  Mosaic projects for schools and community are undertaken once or twice a year. 
    Liz has become a leader in sculpture fabrication of mosaics in Britain and as a gifted teacher offers sculpture courses which are both rich in content and dynamic in delivery. Equally her mosaic mentoring and masterclasses offer a unique opportunity to anyone who wants to dive deeper into the mosaic-making process and produce their own ambitious project.  
     A strong believer in collaboration Liz Tiranti is committed to working with other mosaic colleagues in the Inspired Mosaics Studio which has given her the time to recently complete an MA focussed on the development of  her sculpture practice.  Visit her website to find out more:   www.inspiredmosaicsstudio.com

    www.liztiranti.com

    Exhibitions, Events & Training – Past and Present
    MA Craft & Design- University of Brighton 2018 – 2020
    Open Garden & Studio – sculptures & work in progress, September 2019
    Crouch End Open Studios – Sculptures 2015 & 2017
    1st International Urban Mosaic Intervention, Santiago, Chile 2014
    MADE Brighton 2010 & 2014
    BAMM- British Association for Modern Mosaic – Chair & Events Organiser 2012-15
    BAMM group show, Litchfield Cathedral, UK -2013
    The Faberge Big Egg Hunt- London, UK -2012
    Master in Mosaico – traditional mosaic techniques Orsoni, Venezia , Italy – 2010
    Chicago Mosaic School – sculpture for mosaics with Sherri Warner Hunter -2011
    Decorex International Exhibitor- 2008
    Brighton Festival Artists Open Houses – Open Studio and Showroom Gallery
    2005 -10

  • Matthew Duke

    Matthew Duke

    Nature is the primary concern of Matt Duke’s art work. Each of his pieces demonstrate a relationship between form and shape. There is an aesthetic beauty in the simplicity of the sculpture, which depends heavily on line and colour and evokes a moment in time captured perfectly in the fascinating medium of bronze.
    His twenty years experience in the rare skill of patination is evident in the bold and vibrant palette only permitted to this metal. Such hues and tones would not be successful on pieces crowded by texture, but thanks to the contemporary and delicate surface, produced with skilfully carved sharp lines and curved body, the spectrum brings personality and life to each work.
    The subjects in his earlier works have a more subtle, almost poised stance, whereas his more recent pieces have a fabulous, hypnotic movement, coupled with a focused and determined gaze. Each base, also in bronze, provides a balanced companion to emphasise the narrative in stark, conceptual fashion. The crescent denotation of a reed in patience portrays a comfortable yet advantageous positioning and the upside down pyramid which is blade like and sharp in desire, mirrors the speed and precision of the kingfishers dive.
    Matt Duke is beginning to open new relationships between force, movement and practical application to the well established subject of the natural world and has combined the skill of the traditional and familiar with the style of the minimal and new age.