Castings

I have always cast my own sculptures, and into a variety of secondary media, e.g. plaster, concrete, bronze, silver, pewter. Illustrated below is ‘Eric’, a resin-iron sculpture made in a first edition of 100 (all sold), followed by two views of a life cast from a young Swiss student.  She was at the London School of Fashion, perhaps around 2003.
The next was a very successful resin bronze, which greatly out-sold the foundry bronze version, although it was over a third of the price.  The sculpture in the middle was made in plasticine then cast in terracotta-tinted plaster, and used as a candle holder. The plate behind was a present from Barry Woods, an expert potter (although I believe he later abandoned the wheel to work for the BBC). The sculpture on the right, which I variously call ‘dancer’ and ’sprinter’, is one of my best pieces but I only have a scanned picture. I still have the plasticine original, now much corroded, brittle and oxidised
The sculpture on the left is not one of mine at all; I made a mould from an original Roman / Turkish Medusa, and then a cast in reinforced resin plaster.  Size about 50×50cm (weight about 20kg!).  I was very pleased with the dusty, dry patina I got.  In the centre is a life cast of Marcos de Barros as Hypnos, with an attached wing-helmet, cast in blue concrete.  And finally is the young man himself after a gruelling life casting session, from a scanned photo.
Below left is Jane, cast in resin bronze from an original carved in plaster, below centre.  The model, Jane East, is a friend and accomplished artist in her own right.  Next to that is an early stage of modelling a herm figure surmounted with a horse-head.