bronze, ed. 9
15 x 22 x 6 cm
In memoriam Louwrens Wouda, who named one of his cows after a Dutch queen, and her descendents thereafter .
bronze, unique
horse: 16 x 16 x 8
Based on a Lebanese proverb: "Corpulence is the property of the big horse, slenderness that of the gazelle"
bronze, unique
19 x 14 x 4 cm
From "The King of The Cats" Touring exhibition of works inspired by stories from Lancashire, this is the messenger cat, leaping back up the chimney.
bronze on charred log.
hare: edition of 25; dog and figure: unique.
28 x 86 x 9 cm.
Inspired by a folktale from Ulverston, about a ghostly spectral figure and his very lively familiar, a hare.
bronze, edition: 25
16 x 14 x 10 cm.
A familiar - according to a folktale from Ulverston (Lancashire)
Bronze (ed. 25) on oak base
36 x 49x 4cm
Ceramic sculpture
Part of "The King of the Cats!" Touring exhibition of work inspired by stories from Lancashire.
A strange cat appears from the chimney bearing a message for the resident cat: “Tell Dildrum Doldrum is dead”. On hearing this, the resident cat follows the messenger back up the chimney.
Ceramic relief, unique
25 x 20 x 7 cm
From: The King of the CatsTouring Exhibition of work inspired by stories from Lancashire, this piece is based on a sinister story of a spectre and his familiar - a hare.
ceramic relief, unique, sold - first in series of hares in pockets
Bronze, edition: 25
11 x 18 x 3 cm
There once grazed on the hill of Parlick in the Forest of Bowland an enormous and magnificent dun-coloured cow. She would fill the jug, cup or bucket of whoever came to her in need of milk. Until one day an old woman came with a sieve, and milked her dry.
bronze
For "the King of the Cats" touring exhibition I made a series of peepboxes with simple interaction. Here is the cow after her sad demise; the result of human greed and envy....or was it poverty? Visit www.thekingofthecats.wordpress.com and read the story - retold by Jaqueline Harris.
Available in bronze (edition 24), shown here as clay original.
28 x 13 x 8.5 cm approx.
Chattox, one of the "Pendle Witches" , in the dock, trying to save her skin, and that of her daughter in Lancaster,1612.
bronze relief sculpture, edition: 30
10.5 x 13.5 x 1 cm
From "The King of the Cats" Touring Exhibition
In the story of the Skriker from the Forest of Bowland a huge, unearthly dog portends death and frightens a man quite out of his wits. I found an image of a shadow of a dog that was more nightmarish than the dog itself.
Bronze, edition: 25
14 x 16 x 6.5 cm
Based on a story of a black cockerel who appears on top of the coffin of a man who is carried to his last resting place. Despite every effort of the villagers to chase him away he remains on the coffin and later on the grave; it is as though he insists on guarding the deceased to beyond the here and now.
Available in bronze, shown here as clay original.
In a story from Bardsea near Barrow-in-Furness, the White Dobbie - a haunted specter of a man - appears, walking the coastal road, accompanied by a mad hare, striking fear into man and beast.
Available in bronze (edition 24) - shown here as clay original
16 x 14 x 7 cm
The Hare is the familiar of the Dobbie, usually running ahead of this spectral character, sometimes jumping into his pocket to give comment.
Bronze, edition: 24
15 x 12 x 2 cm
Once in a while a fallow deer turns out white. Can you imagine anything more fabulous than the appearance in the Lancashire fells of a white doe? No wonder it gave rise to a story of magic and enchantment.
bronze, unique, sold - though similar bronzes are available
13 x 16 x 2 cm
bronze, unique
14.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm
Sandcast bronze (edition 25) on oak base
31 x 16 x 4 cm
Inspired by a lancashire folktale
bronze, edition: 25
8.5 x 12.5 x 6 cm
A baby, born of an Irish queen, is kidnapped by an eagle who carries it aloft to its nest in Lathom Park. The image features on the Stanley family standard, through marriage between the families. I delight in the contrast between bird and baby.
Shown here as ceramic sculpture - available in bronze.
A young girl from Crank near St Helens shape-shifts into a lop-eared rabbit, frightening the men who have harmed her quite out of their wits.
I find the role teenage girls play in folktales quite fascinating, and tried to make the sculpture unsetteling through subtle rabbit-like changes in her appearance.
bronze, unique
10 x 14 x 4.5 cm
A play on the related forms of a goose and a pitcher; inspired by a story from Crank, Lancashire, in which an old woman changes her goose into a pitcher.
Terra Cotta
The spectral cat appears in a story from Leyland; it repeatedly moves the building site of a church under construction. After killing a man who stands in his way the villagers agree to follow the cat’s design.
bronze, ed. 25 on charred wood base
bronze, unique
Inspired by a Dutch friend and a Dutch game
bronze, edition: 24
8 x 16 x 4 cm
bronze, eition: 24
8 x 15 x 3 cm
bronze, edition: 24
8 x 15 x 4 cm
Cast iron - also available in bronze, edition: 25
10 x 15 x 17 cm
Bronze, edition: 25
11 x 8 x 6 cm
bronze
9 x 7 x 3 cm
Bronze
16 x 10 x 2.5
Inspired by a Middle Eastern proverb:" Throw him in the water and he will rise with a fish in his mouth".
bronze (edition: 25), hay, terra cotta
Inspired by an english nursery rhyme:
I had a litle horse, his name was "Dappled Grey"
His head was made if gingerbread, his tale was made of hay.
He could amble, he could trot, he could carry the mustard pot,
He could amble, he could trot, through the old town of Windsor.
bronze, edition: 25
20 x 21 x 8 cm
horse: bronze (edition: 25), tree: welded steel, unique
46 x 34 x 22 cm
bronze, edition: 25
9.5 x 12 x 9cm
bronze. edition: 25
10 x 10 x 7 cm.
bronze, edition: 10
15 x 19 x 8 cm
From the "Chanticleer" series of sculptures inspired by Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale"
Bronze, ed: 25
7.5 x 14 x 5 cm
with Ferric Patina
The title is after one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories
Bronze, edition: 12
13.5 x 19 x 6 cm
with Ferric Patina
Inspired by the foal of a draft horse, observed in a field in Atherton, Lancashire
