This is the maquette for the sculpture Bolan which is now in Kempston Library. This was made for the riverflowconnect at the consultation stage when we took it into schools, speaking to the pupils about the RiverGreatOuse passing through their town kempston.
I was lucky enough to be commissioned by the BCA to work with one of the year groups at Shortstown Primary School to come up with a representation of the ill-fated R101 airship as part of the airshipdreams.
He records names of local families as well as being a snapshot of a bygone life that could have been lost in history. The Hoe would often be painted in bright colours so that it could be left in the field at the end of the day, and easily found in the dusky, dewy light of the next morning.
This is a Shire horse in stainless steel. It has the shoes from a Shire from Wimpole Hall Stables, they are Stanley’s.
Religion has inspired art for millennia.
Inspired by photographer Eadweard Muybridge who proved that a horse was suspending in motion.
A study of a working horse from Wimpole Hall Stables
Way Station at Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales. This is a Way Station, where people traversing the Via Beata can rest on their travels from East to West.
An aluminium Swan, commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts for the project; River, Flow, Connect (Kempston Library).
Airship at Shortstown School. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts as part of the Airship Dreams project.
