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other Greek statues, but really only because of the movements of form to which these works had opened my eyes.’ ‘During that first visit, Eric Kennington told me many things about sculpture, stressing particularly purity of approach. ‘Whenever I could, I visited him both in his studio and his house on the mall. One afternoon I went to have tea with him and met a very quiet man with what seemed to me a dynamic personality who was wearing the uniform of a private in the Air Force. Imagine my surprise when he turned out to be none other than Laurence of Arabia. How I wish I had met him when I was in a more loquacious frame of mind.’ Bainbridge returned to Horsham and took up sculpting, though the first two attempts ended in disaster. Fortunately, Philip Padwick walked in to the studio just after the second disaster turned round, and offered to pay for a bigger piece of stone and pay Bainbridge to carve it. In his autobiography, Bainbridge describes his thoughts on carving: ‘I felt that it should
This oil painting by Bainbridge Copnall depicts life on Horsham Market. Presumably, the cupcake stand is just to the right...
be treated in what I thought to be a more pure manner; stone should look like stone and nothing else. After a while, I evolved a shape growing out of the rugged ripples of stone which formed a base; the shape grew up and passing through a fish like form developed into
a stony man, which, whilst growing upwards, twisted sideways from the elements. ‘The name given was ‘Evolution’ and as it was my very first carving the name I thought was apt.’ Whilst taking up sculpting, Bainbridge had
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