Sculpture Exhibition : Online exclusive
An online exhibition with works by bronze sculptors Cobus van der Walt and Christopher Marvell.
Cobus van der Walt grew up in stellenbosch near Cape Town. In Pursuit of developing his interest in art, evident from a very early age, he completed a BA degree in Fine Arts at the Univeristy of Pretoria in 1991.
Christopher Marvell was born in 1964 and grew up in Clacton before studying at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1982-6). Later Marvell moved to Cambridge and began working in a studio at Fulbourn Manor with artist and designer Majorie Townley.
"It is the business of observing acutely and recording - of searching for the line and shape and images. You have to make art from what you know about - a celebration of locality...One idea leads to another...My graphic linear drawings work well as the starting point for making a sculpture . Using plaster is brilliant as it can be worked both wet/soft and dry/hard. For 30 years I have used plaster as a modelling material, through the lost wax process then casting everything into bronze. Trying to make something look simple, easy and spontaneous....is difficult. Sometimes results come quickly at other times it takes twenty goes to get that simple line and shape flowing correctly."- Christopher Marvell
