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Getting ready for next year
WITH most of the exhibitions over, the winter months are the time when I design and make new sculptures for next year’s exhibitions which begin in the spring and run through the summer months. This includes completing a threemetre tall sculpture in stainless steel and glass to be exhibited at Chichester Cathedral in June, but the majority of sculptures I will be creating during this The original sculpture period are for casting in bronze. of the Minotaur, the The process for bronze sculptures is latest sculpture, prior completely different to how the stainless to its delivery to the foundry steel ones are made. It begins with a steel armature onto which clay, wax or plaster is built up to form the sculpture. Depending on the complexity, this can take many days and weeks before the sculpture is finished. Once completed I then deliver the finished sculpture to the foundry in Hampshire where a mould is carefully formed around my sculpture. From this mould, wax copies are produced that then become the bronze sculptures; each one being carefully finished by hand to ensure they are exact representations of the original piece I created. They then are patinated to the desired colour. The Polar Bear is one of the new bronze sculptures finished in an iceblue marbled patination. By Ian Marlow
