Small Bronze Figure Sculptures

Another version of “Squatting 1” - this time more filled out and rounded in the thighs and lower legs, contrasted with the angular flatness of the arms and head.

This abstract sculpture was a re-making of “Abstract wave 2” , this time with thicker, especially sharper and more defined edges, which gives the from a more substantial and tense feeling.

With this elegant figurative sculpture, I focused not only on the the female form, but more so on the remaining oval or heart-shaped space trapped between her lap, thigh and her bent-over body.

The posture of this bronze figurative sculpture describes the particular moment of surrender; either ground down from frustration, with personal will and resistance eroded, or from spiritual enlightenment. The effect and end result is the same: one lets something larger than oneself take over control and responsibility - there is openness, the gaze raised upwards towards God(s), space, heaven…

This bronze figurative sculpture represents a primeval woman. She is well rooted with her short legs to the ground - she cannot easily be displaced. Two streams of energies flow through her: downwards through her arms and hands, connecting her with the earth and back- and upwards through her hair, connecting with the space around her!

With this figurative bronze sculpture I focus on one simple posture: straining against the wind, with both the upper forward-bent body and her hair diagonally blown back.

This figurative bronze sculpture contrasts the hard edges of a cubist style with round volumes, uniting loosely representational with an abstract style.

With this figurative bronze sculpture I present the very simplified image of a sitting woman, triangular in shape. The body fits into a square block , inspired by Egyptian granite sculptures of scribes.

Another version of “Squatting 1” - this time more filled out and rounded in the thighs and lower legs, contrasted with the angular flatness of the arms and head.

With this bronze sculpture I explored a figure less solid than my usual sculptures - with three air spaces trapped between between arms, legs and body.

I created this figurative bronze sculpture when the TV news were full of refugee stories - in this case Albanians fleeing their homes from the Serbians.

This bronze figure has now lost its balance, and its grip onto itself - the movements of legs and arms are spontaneous response to protecting the body from the fall.

Holding onto one’s body, as if it was a bundle that might fall apart, this bronze sculpture of a figure is readying itself for continuing its movement backwards, across its neck and head. A figure and sculpture only just in balance, it is caught in mid-motion.

With all of my three small figurative sculptures entitled “Tumbling” I set my intention to fix three fleeting moments within one succession of movements, that probably in real life would escape one’s notice because of its speed. On an emotional level, I wanted to focus on a natural movement, in which one looses momentarily control . One might possibly feel helpless, or alternatively be filled with a pleasurable sense of dizziness, and certainly a loss of the habitual upright perspective on life. One is thrown into life , caught in movement - rather than standing ( or sitting) above it . To me, it appears that falling is diametrically opposed to standing : it looks more spontaneous, unintended, possibly undignified and un-heroic.

This small figurative bronze sculpture gives form to rhythm.The left leg in the process of lifting, the right leg taking the body’s weight, the figure is caught mid-movement. Her bent and short legs make her seem more grounded, all the closer to the earth she pounds with her feet; her head, however, is striving upwards.

With this bronze figure sculpture, I reduced most anatomical detail to concentrate only on what is essential to this pose: the feeling in her belly is strong, as her protective hands indicate - and it needs to move up through her body, and be expressed though singing and her open mouth!

Another version of my earthy, strong women taking up “natural “ poses, with slightly flattened planes, inspired by African carvings.

This figurative bronze sculpture was originally inspired by a small neolithic clay sculpture from Malta , “the Sleeping Lady” - a culture where women seemed to be leaders within their society , in their role of advising priestesses.

An image of intensity and energy, contained in a very small format. The soft meandering downward outlines I contrasted with the pointed shape of the left ( only) arm; the broadly apart legs confidently planted on the ground , with the head angled upwards, tense and aspiring.

This figure has finally come to rest on the ground, with no intention of getting up .She is making herself comfortable in her current position , by holding onto her legs.

Slumped , upward looking head is a public commission with the brief of a welcoming , affectionate sculpture beside a hospital entrance, reflecting the care and dedication that goes on inside, and adding warmth and human drama to what may otherwise feel like a forbidding institution.

Cast in Bronze Resin, but originally carved in stone, this figure is compact and lacking space as though still encased in that most solid and intransigent of materials. Carved at a time of difficult personal circumstances, this sculpture embodies feelings of threat and anxiety.

Angel 2010 Painted Ceramic  40 x [...]

This is a powerful ceramic figure in cubist style .S/He is all “wrapped up with himself” in a defensive posture, holding his arm in front of his face, clinging to his own shoulder.