Sanderson draws upon his experiences of the natural world.  He delights in the simple beauty of a common water worn grey pebble, with no signs of organic life or particular value.  Another day he will focus upon the habit of trillions of life forms only visible by microscope but are vital to the support of all other global life such as the existence of diatoms and radiolarians.  

His engagement by trusts, scientific bodies, charities and education establishments have led to investigations into subjects such as protein crystals, magnetism, flight, blood flow, and time.  His many works are therefore distributed widely and are often very different in character and scale.  Although a specialist in metal forming, he has a broad background in craft with education in fine art, design, fashion, silver-smithing, foundry and forge.  He is a often a site-specific artist, engaged to design to a criteria, timescale and range of budgets that has led to collaborations in Art and Engineering across the world on the scales from football sized to full scale buildings for over 30 years. But he also has pleasure creating pieces as individual pieces for private homes and gardens. 

Emma’s figurative sculptures celebrate the human body as well as playfully reflect on our humanity.  Her work begins in clay, and then is cast into Bronze and Bronze resin. 

Emma studied a Fine Art degree at Nottingham Trent University, which led her to be involved in community arts for a few years after graduating.   In 2010, Emma moved to Bristol, to focus on her own practice in figurative sculpture as well as mould making and resin casting.  Since then, Emma hasn’t looked back as galleries and buyers increasingly take interest in her work.  She constantly welcomes opportunities to learn new processes and develop ideas, and was recently awarded funding to Develop her Creative Practice in metal work, funded by Arts Council.

Emma is represented by various galleries around the UK and has exhibited internationally at art fairs.  She has completed various public and private commissions, including a public, bronze installation in Bristol.  In 2019 Emma took time off to have a family; she has managed to keep the business ticking over and is gradually finding more time to get back to making.

I am Martin Jarvis, a retired manufacturing engineer who has always had a passion for working with metal and recently rediscovered my artistic side. As a self-taught sculptor with an engineering background, I thrive on the challenge of acquiring new skills, particularly in creating dynamic kinetic art. Drawing inspiration from both nature and machines, I aim to infuse life into my creations. I am excited to showcase some of my latest pieces.

 

Having been a professional sculptor for 25 years, Angela has always
focused her inspiration on the female form. Looking at the beauty of line, structure and movement that the body creates.

From a young age Angela developed a creative side to her and went on
to study fashion design after leaving school. Then in later years
discovered a newfound interest in ceramics. This new path took Angela
back into education where she gained a 1st Class Honours Degree in
Ceramics and three-dimensional design, from Wolverhampton university.

Angela immediately started her new career in 2000. With the former background in fashion and her love of fabrics she became inspired by the sensual nature of a semi naked figure and it’s beauty and form. Initially specialising in small table top size porcelain and unglazed ceramics, Angela has over time and with experience, incorporated a variety of materials to express her ideas and emotions. This includes using Resin, steel and ceramics, but also combining all three materials together. She also has work cast in foundry bronze.

The female form continues to inspire Angela’s sculptures. Having now
lived in rural Carmarthenshire for 23 years she is now drawing influence
from the beauty of the landscape around her and its spiritual nature thus
the sculptures have grown more organically. In part the desire to
experiment with new ideas and materials have enabled the development
of her designs and allowed her ideas to increase in size, and to be
suitable for outdoors. She has also developed a process of hand forming
resin enabling her not to be tied to the constraints of just using a mould
for limited editions, therefore creating one off sculptures.

Angela has exhibited her sculptures around the UK at various outdoor
exhibitions and with galleries. She also exhibited her work at the RHS
Chealsea flower show for several years. Her work is in private
collections across the UK, Europe, Canada and America.

Lucy grew up on a farm in rural Essex which stimulated her interest in nature and wildlife from an early age. Hours spent in the garden and woodlands were perhaps the foundations of an ongoing passion for the natural world and countryside.
Regular visits to the Devon, Cornish and Norfolk coasts further extended this interest to the marine environment, and a collection of fossils and shells ensued. Being an athlete in these early years also sparked a keen interest in human anatomy and her latest designs see the amalgamation of the aforementioned subject matters. Incorporating the subtle curves and lines of the human body amongst the twisting forms of an eroded shell, often plant like in their structure these organic shapes represent for Lucy the ever present influences of our natural environment on the human body, be it both physical and emotional.

Lucy has exhibited widely, notable exhibitions including ‘on form’ at Asthall Manor, Glyndebourne Opera House and Gardens, and Hunnesbostrand in Sweden. She has sold work across the globe and undertaken public commissions including for Hotel Geysir in Iceland next to the iconic natural landmark, and is represented by Messum’s Gallery.

All Lucy’s stone sculptures are made by her in her Oxfordshire studio, and the bronze sculptures are cast by Oxfordshire foundry Lockbund. She has recently acquired some unusual British stone which will be the main focus of her next body of work.

Kay sculpts in clay and gets it cast in Bronze resin, Marble resin. She has been sculpting for over 37 years. She also taught sculpture for many years and teaches children in schools voluntary.

Three of her sculptures won the sculpture award in 2013, 2022 and 2024 in Chelsea, London.

Kay’s work is a reflection of Peace, happiness, family, love and togetherness: all her work is very tactile, contemporary art and is meant to be enjoyed by viewing and by feeling its texture.

She has exhibited and sold her work internationally and also donated sculptures to be auctioned for charitable causes such as King Edward VII hospital, Macmillan, Children’s charities, hospice and cancer care centers, Great Ormond Street Hospital and for animal welfare in Jersey. Kay’s sculptures are in many famous people’s collections and gone to many different countries.

She has her Studio/workshop in Buckinghamshire England.

Fusing imagination and functionality

Ted: “Over my 25 years in the motor industry, I moved into the specialist field of historic vehicle restoration. During this time I have developed a broad skill set and enjoy using my experience to enhance projects both simple and complex.

I started predominately with sheet metal-working but soon moved onto heavier gauge materials. This led me to the realisation of the inherent beauty and the infinite possibilities that the materials had to offer.

Utilising both traditional and modern methods I started to express my more creative side. Instead of applying this to purely autotelic gewgaws, I applied my craft to everyday items such as hinges, door catches, log baskets etc.

The Dorset Copperfish is the realisation of a long held ambition to create exclusive bespoke metal items for whoever wants them.”

Ted Edley works with copper, brass, steel and other metals to create decorative, architectural sculptural work.

He is sometimes seen lurking on Quest TV ‘Salvage Hunters: The Restorers’.

British sculptor Hamish Mackie’s fluid, loose approach to sculpting wildlife means he can capture the very essence of life, making an inanimate object appear as if it might take flight or leap at any point. It is this ability that has made his work perfect for enhancing a landscape or interior. As Stephen Moss, Author and Naturalist explains “Yet like all great art, this is an illusion. There are no deer, hares or woodcock; simply bronze, fashioned into these memorable moments caught in time, yet lasting for eternity. It is a kind of magic: yet magic in a tangible form, pleasing our sight and our sense of touch.”

Mackie’s sculpting does not just stop at wildlife, he is a sculptor who likes to experiment with his subject matter, As former BBC Arts Correspondent, Will Gompertz found when he came across Hamish’s Ammonite Cretaceous sculpture while on holiday in Cornwall. “..the ribbed surface of which was cracked and baked and rough. The sun was casting shadows deep into its crevasses and central cavity, a counterpoint to the bright light dancing across the metallic façade. It was wonderful to behold: an ancient form rendered in contemporary materials with a gorgeous patina as crinkled and weathered as the face of an old Cornish fisherman.”

All Hamish’s sculptures are produced as limited editions, they are all signed, dated and numbered. Hamish also takes bespoke commissions. With a background in design, Hamish is well-versed in liaising with interior and landscape designers, architects and builders. If you want to discuss a commission or learn more about how the sculptures are created and cast, you can visit his studio in Oxfordshire, by appointment.

Jem O’Carroll

“Enamel couples ancient history and my childhood with the here and now. There is an agelessness to the colour and materials of copper and glass fused in the heated furnace of the kiln and time.

My art represents a maturing emotional relationship with the subjects of my external and internal environments with which I’m continually encountering, in part, I am growing by rediscovering my child, learning by mistakes and play.