RICHARD SMITH & TOBIAS MARTIN
FINE BRITISH SCULPTURE
Richard Smith (b. 1955)
Richard J. Smith was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, UK in 1955. He studied illustration at Luton School of Art to a high standard and graduated with a diploma in Technical & Scientific Illustration. He was soon offered a job as a medical artist at the John Radcliffe teaching hospital in Oxford. In 1978 he was painting for galleries as a full time artist with his depictions of wildlife. He has gained an international reputation for his work and is best known for his superb paintings of fish and water. He has exhibited at prestigious galleries such as the Tryon Gallery and W. H. Patersons in London, The Sportsman’s Edge Gallery in New York, The Call of Africa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the Everard Reed Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa. Richard has exhibited his paintings at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum in the USA and the Natural History Museum and Tring Museum in Britain. He has sold at all the major auctions houses in London, such as Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonhams and Phillips. In the latter part of 2007, Richard was commissioned to produce several fish paintings, for the Sultan of Oman. Callaghan Fine Paintings has commissioned a series of life size bronze birds. His works include British birds such as the elusive Snipe sitting atop a fence post and the beautiful Little Blue penguin, a native of New Zealand. His works are all studied from life whilst either out in the field or in a museum with taxidermy. With incredible attention to detail Richard has breathed fresh air into this medium.
‘Majestic Hare’
Height: 42” Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
‘Boxing Hares’ Height: 16”
‘Calling Curlew’ Height: 17”
‘Cock Pheasant’
Height: 13” Edition of 12 Original Bronze Signed
‘Seated Hare’ Height: 19” Edition of 12 Original Bronze Signed
‘Cockerel’
‘Curlew’
‘Dabchick’
‘Giant What Me’
Height: 40”
Original Bronze Signed
‘Goose’
‘Great Crested Grebe’ Height: 12” Edition of 12 Original Bronze Signed
‘Grebe’
‘Hen Pheasant’
Height: 4”
Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
‘Heron’
‘Horse Mushroom’
7”
‘Mojo Fun’
Height: 69” Edition of 5 Original Bronze Signed
‘Lying Hare’
‘Mallard
‘Macaw’
Width: 31½” Edition of 25 Original Bronze Signed
‘Moorhen’ Width: 9”
‘Nuthatch’
Height: 6½” Edition of 50 Original Bronze Signed
‘Otter in Pursuit’
Width:
29½”
Edition of 12 Original Bronze Signed
‘Otter Pup’
Height: 15” Edition of 25 Original Bronze Signed
‘Pottering Otter’
12
Original Bronze Signed
‘Parasol Mushroom’
‘Perching Partridge’ Height: 5½” Edition of 25 Original Bronze
Signed
‘Cock
‘Pintail Drake’
‘Seated Partridge’ Width: 8” Edition of 25
Original Bronze Signed
‘Pintail Duck Head’ Height: 85” Edition of 5 Original Bronze Signed
‘Shaggy
Height: 12”
of 12 Original Bronze Signed
Ink Cap Mushroom’
‘Shoveler
Duck’
‘Snipe’
‘Little Owl’ Height: 9½”
‘Stilt’ Height: 16½” Edition of 25
‘Stoat’
Height: 6½”
Edition of 50 Original Bronze Signed
‘Taking It Easy’
20”
of 12 Original Bronze Signed
‘Tawny Owl’
‘Vixen’
21”
of 12 Original Bronze Signed
‘Trout’
‘What, Me?’
‘Woodcock’
‘Little Blue’ Height: 13½”
‘Woodpecker’
‘The Emperor’
Height: 43½” Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
Tobias Martin (b. 1972)
Tobias Martin was born in 1972 in Wiltshire, 12 miles from Stonehenge. Influenced by his idyllic rural upbringing, and the forces of nature and magic that permeated his childhood surroundings, these works have something of the mystical about them. Each piece is approached with precise observation and an acute interest in the minutiae of the subject matter, manipulating the material with a delicacy and lightness of touch. Despite being realised in heavy materials such as bronze, the resulting piece achieves a sense of movement and character that conveys the essential spirit of the animal.
Inspired by the work of Grinling Gibbons and Alfred Gilbert, Martin combines centuries old techniques with modern technology and materials. He has sculpted professionally for artists, film sets and exclusive interiors, as well as participating in numerous shows internationally including in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, UK and USA.
‘Nico’
‘In The Moonlight’ Height: 69” Edition of 5 Original Bronze Signed
‘Elephant’ Height: 21”
Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
‘Baby Elephant’ Width: 13” Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
Available separately, or as a pair.
‘Benji’
‘Puffin’
Height: 14”
of 12 Original Bronze Signed
‘Sir Humphrey’
Height: 28”
Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
‘Jumping Jack’
Height: 22”
Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
‘King Penguin’ Height: 28” Edition of 12 Original Bronze
Signed
‘Nico Jnr’
Height: 12” Edition of 12 Original Bronze Signed
‘Jumping Jack on Plinth’
Height: 60” Original Bronze Signed
‘Sir Humphrey on Plinth’
Height: 66½”
Original Bronze Signed
‘Humpback Whale’
‘The Emperor’
Width: 45”
Height: 43½”
Edition of 5
Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
Original Bronze Signed
‘Whale and Calf’
Width: 25”
Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
‘The Emperor’
‘Giant Sir Humphrey’
Height: 43½”
Height: 42”
Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
Original Bronze Signed
‘Giant Jumping Jack’
Height: 46” Original Bronze Signed
‘Boxing Hares’
Edition of 12
‘The Emperor’
Height: 43½”
Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed ‘Baby Rhino’
Original Bronze Signed ‘Rhino’ Width: 24”
Height: 6” Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
Available separately, or as a pair.
‘Best Friends’
‘Tortoise’
‘Black Panther’
Height: 12” Edition of 12 Original Bronze Signed
‘Cheetah Head’
‘The Emperor’
‘Boxing Hares on Plinth’
Height: 65”
Height: 43½” Edition of 12
Original Bronze Signed
Original Bronze Signed
