News and Updates from the Studio
Some little pieces in progress
After the epic mission of sculpting the Gwase Bull I was quite happy to shift down a gear or two size-wise and sculpt these three little pieces. It was a great way to ease myself into the new studio here in East Texas and get a good feel for [...]
Bringing the Gwasi Bull to life
What you see in the image gallery below is the process of taking the sculpture from the clay to the bronze. The mold is made up of many pieces and a not single piece as one might imagine. You can see that the final piece is never solid but in [...]
The Elephant!!
A very good friend and collector of my work commissioned me to sculpt an Elephant. What an adventure this has been. Watch the video of the work in progress here He asked that the animal should not be displayed in an aggressive pose and that the animal be alert without [...]
Timoti, Torch Batteries and the Lioness
I became an officer in the Rhodesian bush war and along with my team of stalwarts built a training camp on the Sebakwe river to train volunteers in the art of bush craft and tracking etc. We needed a camp attendant /come cook and to achieve this we were allocated [...]
The Markhor Commission for Don Wall
My friend Don Wall made a trip to Pakistan in 2018 in pursuit of a Markhor goat in the mountains of Kashmir. He told me he had undertaken this odyssey while we were at SEWE 2020 before the Chinese virus hit and changed the world. I have known about the [...]
Duff and the Hippo
Did you know Duff Gifford? He came with me on a number of hunting trips. On this occasion he was assisting Alan Lowe and I on a hunting trip in the Nyakasanga area of the Zambezi Valley. We had three American hunters on that trip, Joe Colvin, George Bezeckny and Doug [...]
Far from town
We had a Muslim cook in our house in Zimbabwe and one year we decided to take him into the safari area to assist Timoti, the tall and very much liked Matabele camp cook. The camp was on the banks of the Zambezi in the north of the Chewore [...]
Georgie launches her art at SEWE 2020
Georgie joined us at SEWE 2020, showing her paintings for the first time ever at an exhibition. These are the first pieces of wildlife art she has painted in an official capacity and took her 3 weeks to complete. She came to learn, gather information and measure her work in [...]
Three new pieces plus a new website for 2019
Time moves quickly these days and so must we to keep up. If you are reading this you will have already noticed the new website, helped in no small part by John Kepchar of TAP Photo Studio in Asheville NC with his beautiful photography. I have three new pieces in [...]
Wrapping up 2018 at Bronze Africa
Had a really lovely comment from Barbara and Steve about Closing in the Long Grass. Went something like this: I wanted to let you know that the bronze 'Closing in the Long Grass' arrived safely on Friday. My husband and I are so pleased with it. We really love the [...]
Bronzes rising from the ashes
This is a tale of woe that fortunately had a good ending for 3 of my original pieces. I suspect there are a good number of you out there that have never even seen these 3 pieces. The Kilimanjaro Bull is three feet high and was the very first Elephant [...]
Sculptures in the pipeline
John is in Zimbabwe getting his well-earned 'Africa Fix' visiting family and friends and generally enjoying the place closest to his heart. I thought I might would give you a preview of what he has been working on lately. As of yet he has not titled any of them so [...]