The Flying Hippo Maquette

My Flying Hippo is a medium sized maquette in cast bronze. Female Hippo is swimming gracefully through the air, weightless as if immersed in water.

Size; L/B/h 64/51/80cm in a patinated stainless steel box; 40/40/10cm

My choice of patina, a deep ferric red to purple resembles their natural colour while emphasizing volume with greens, yellows to turquoise in the dark recesses.

In anticipation of a large Flying Hippopotamus, watch this space…

Crocodile maquette is a bronze maquette size; l/b/h 30/30/45 cm on top of its base 21/21/9.5cm

In anticipation of a garden sized crocodile,

What a delightful character!

There stands Goddess in bronze, edition number 2/5

The Giant Octopus ‘Kraken’ close up detail, Bronze Edition 1/6

And there they stand, my two lates monumental sculptures on my veranda in sunny Stellenbosch South Africa

Hippopotami are lithe and graceful beneath the surface, pure delight, what a sight!

The large and small Flying Hippo Maquettes stand in my studio, complete, in wax for bronze.

‘Kraken’ bronze, specs are as follows;

lxbxh

1500x1100x1800cm

227Kg bronze

Edition; 1/6

Mounted upon a rusted mild steel plinth;

base’ 1000x1000x900H cm

Weight; 227 kg

She stands in good company with my ‘Goddess’ the North Westerly Wind outside my studio/gallery in Stellenbosch South Africa.

My large bronze Octopus sculpture ‘Kraken’ was installed this morning at the studio,

The size of the sculpture is ;

lxbxh cast Bronze ; 1500x1100x1800cm

Weight 227Kg

Steel Base; 1000/ 1000/900

Weight 227Kg

My newest addition to my bird studies collection in bronze is Kingfishers on line. Delightful!

Edition 1/12, cast bronze on patinated stainless steel

The studio teems with life, symbols, mythology and character…

My Kraken is being assembled and Fettled meticulously in bronze, many panels have already been assembled to make its body bulk.

The legs will be attached once weld lines on the body are finished being hidden. Textures are welded up and joins hidden.

This sculpture will stand outside my Stellenbosch studio on 44 Church Street.