GREENMAN OF THE LANDSCAPE - Maquette
1999
This piece is available for purchase.
A maquette for a sculpture for Repton Park.
GREENMAN OF THE LANDSCAPE - made from a mixture of cast, modelled, and found elements - is evocative of the ancient ‘Greenman’ motif. Timeless and mysterious, this primitive symbol has given full reign to the imagination of artists and craftsmen for centuries – with remarkably little hindrance from fact or history. This ‘tree-man’ also follows a tradition of blurred boundaries between man and nature so often seen in Sioban’s work.
The GREENMAN OF THE LANDSCAPE was initially inspired as a tribute to the first ‘Landscape Gardener’, Humphry Repton.
Humphry Repton (1752 – 1818) as successor to ‘Capability’ Brown was able to carve his new profession from his lifelong love of the natural landscape. Renowned for his watercolours, the basis of many of his garden designs, he pursued his vision with energy and passion. Repton was a very hard working and practical man – but he was also well known for his sense of humour!
The maquette is made of wood and wax, but the full size sculpture will be cast in bronze and patinated in rich greens and rusty browns, which throws up an interesting construction and bronze-casting challenge!
- Category:
- Portrait
- Flora
- Proposal
Location: Outdoor
Size: Medium
Dimensions: Maquette: 55cm x 56cm x 7cm (Bronze: LIFESIZE)
Medium: (mixed media for) Bronze
Edition size: UNIQUE
Collection: Artist's Collection
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