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United Kingdom
Sculpture, Metal on Stainless Steel
Size: 15.7 W x 78.7 H x 3.9 D in
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The Avocet sculpture is one of my latest pieces, inspired by a bird that I made many years ago in a woodwork class at school which still sits proudly on my mum’s mantle-piece. After many hours refining the curves, going through numerous tail designs, trying to get it to balance with the body I finally achieved a design that I was happy with. The piece is cut from stainless steel by laser, a process that accurately replicates the perfect curves of my drawings and finished with a mirror polish. The piece's are mounted on a two meter Oak Skylon's, the curvaceous design of the birds make a dramatic sight reflecting the clouds as they drift by. The oak posts are are inspired by the huge Skyoln that made such a dramatic sight on the South Bank at the 1951 Festival of Britain, its something that’s fascinated me since I was young. I managed to find a local furniture maker who had a 2m long lathe and he’s done a magnificent job creating the three identical Skylons from locally grown Oak.
Original Created:2015
Subjects:Garden
Materials:Stainless SteelWoodSteel
Styles:ModernContemporay
Mediums:MetalWoodStainless Steel
Sculpture:Metal on Stainless Steel
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:15.7 W x 78.7 H x 3.9 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:United Kingdom.
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Born in Yorkshire Simon studied graphics and photography at Sheffield Polytechnic, moving to the south coast in the 90’s, working for many years as a designer and photographer. Using illustrative techniques learnt during his time as a designer, he designed sculptural concepts purely for pleasure, wanting something to enhance his own garden. It was one of his design clients form the art world that recently encouraged him to pursue his ideas and turn his concepts into reality. Pieces are curvaceous, charmingly simple, almost two dimensional, which probably reflects his training as a graphic designer and beliefs in the ‘less is more’ approach. Most of his sculptures are crafted from sheet steel and stainless steel. He is particularly fond of the rich warm hues that you get with the more natural rusted finish with pieces being left to oxidise naturally, a process that highlights the intrinsic beauty of the material as the finish evolves with time. Simon is at home working with steel and engineering processes. It’s something that is in his blood having grown up near Sheffield, spending his early years tinkering in his grandfather's engineering workshop and working his summer holidays in the steel works whilst studying in Sheffield. He still make frequent visits back to his roots, an area that he has a great affection for, making use of the local trades wherever possible when creating his work.
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