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Ireland
Sculpture, Bronze on Bronze
Size: 11 W x 46 H x 11 D in
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Whooper swans migrate to Ireland to escape the Siberian winter. I was watching them on a lake in Connemara , West of Ireland and found some of their flight feathers on the shore, beautifull , functional objects . And I thought about "the flash upon the inward eye", as the poet said ,when you find something beautiful like that . Those first thoughts of flight , swans , grace and elegance ,power rush about the brain . So in this piece I try to put those type of avian thoughts back into the feather ! the bird is in the feather rather than the feather in the bird? The piece is in welded bronze and so is unique. The feathers are in 2mm sheet bronze with a rib made of tapered 10mm o bronze round bar. The swan cut outs are achieved with high pressure water as using heat to cut the shape out would distort the bronze sheet. The 3D swans are all in welded bronze . The patina is a blue green with a white overlay of titanium oxide. The plinth is a pale sandstone . The piece also reminds me of a poem by the irish poet laureate ,W B Yeats , The Wild Swans at Coole. the 2nd verse goes "The 19th autumn has come upon me Since i first made my count; I say before I had well finished all suddenly mount and scatter wheeling in great broken rings , upon their clamorous wings "
Sculpture:Bronze on Bronze
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11 W x 46 H x 11 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Ireland.
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Ireland
Born in 1956, John Coll has had an interest in art and the natural world since he was a boy. He studied marine biology at NUI Galway and worked as a biologist on a fish farm. At the age of 27 he became a professional sculptor. Much of his work is inspired by the marine environment and the human interaction with it. An accomplished portraitist, he has sculpted many busts of Irish writers and more recently the President of Ireland , Michael D Higgins . In 2018 he completed a 2 meter sculpture of Dr Michael Smurfit for the Smurfit Business School and most recently a sculpture of the singer Luke Kelly that sits on South King Street in Dublin . His working medium is cast and welded bronze and stainless steel.
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