About THE SCULPTOR
Carole Andrews
Carole Andrews has a degree in Fine Art and works from her studio at home in Kent. Her imagination is sparked by watching her garden change and develop throughout the year. The diversity of texture, form and design she sees in nature, feeds into the organic and semi-abstract sculpture she builds. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors and has exhibited widely around the country, Europe and the USA and with clients in the UK, France, Portugal, Italy and the Channel Islands.
SCULPTURES EXHIBITING
Villosa Blue
This work is my response to coming across a collection of carniverous plants on display in a glass tank at a botanic garden in Australia. I was intrigued by these rather strange looking plants that colonise forest floors in tropical rain forests. They were very small and delicate plants growing in clusters that would be easily overlooked amongst the giants of the rain forest. I was intrigued by these diminuative beauties and I hope my sculpture conveys something of their delicate and intricate appeal. I make different sizes and colours for indoor as well as outdoor display, ranging from 30cm tall to this 2m piece.
Blue Villosa made from aluminium
PRICE: £2,000
To enquire about purchasing this sculpture please contact events@leeds-castle.co.uk
White Flora
My sculpture is based on the ability to manipulate 2D flexible aluminium mesh into strong 3D organic form. I have a comprehensive book on Origami paper folding techniques that I use to work out how to tease the mesh into my desired folds which is a long and frustrating business and needs a lot of patience. I was thrilled to bits when I finally managed to coax the mesh into a Gladioli-type of bloom. I repeated this process and added leaves with the result being the White Flora on display. Making sculpture is like a conversation. I ask the questions and the aluminium replies and you don’t always get the answers you want! This time I did and I hope you liked my end result!
White Flora made of aluminium and steel.
PRICE: £700 each or £2,000 for 3
To enquire about purchasing this sculpture please contact events@leeds-castle.co.uk
Natural Elements
My aim here was to make an abstract floweriform that was flat and circular at the centre, then radiating out into deep wavy edges without any visible joins. I use lengths of 2D aluminium mesh that I sew together then manipulate into the desired shapes. The mesh is cut into quadrants with the outside edges cut on the bias and stretched to form the wavy edges then thick aluminium wire is then sewn along the wavy edge. Please take your time and look closely, I do hope you cannot spot my joins? Wavy blooms are very fiddly to make!
Natural Elements made of stainless steel and aluminium.
PRICE: £300
To enquire about purchasing this sculpture please contact events@leeds-castle.co.uk
Desmid
Desmid is the name for a family of single celled microscopic green algea found in mainly fresh waters around the globe. I love to feast my eyes on all the myriads of unexpected shapes and forms of life that have evolved within the hidden underwater world of the microscope. Do have a look, it’s like having trays and trays of modern jewelry to chose from. I find this rich diversity of underwater life a constant source of inspiration for my sculpture. Just looking at all those different life forms is to me like being in a playground and frees up my imagination to make and do just whatever it wants. Perfect.
Desmid is made of aluminium and steel.
PRICE: £1,100
To enquire about purchasing this sculpture please contact events@leeds-castle.co.uk
Small Villosa
This work is my response to coming across a collection of carniverous plants on display in a glass tank at a botanic garden in Australia. I was intrigued by these rather strange looking plants that colonise forest floors in tropical rain forests. They were very small and delicate plants growing in clusters that would be easily overlooked amongst the giants of the rain forest. I was intrigued by these diminuative beauties and I hope my sculpture conveys something of their delicate and intricate appeal. I make different sizes and colours for indoor as well as outdoor display, ranging from 30cm tall to 2m.
Small Villosa is made of aluminium.
PRICE: £700 each
To enquire about purchasing this sculpture please contact events@leeds-castle.co.uk
Spotted
This piece developed from a plant I was trying to grow in my garden called Physalis Franchettii, commonly known as ‘Chinese Lanterns’. It was not a great success and I finally gave up looking for the plant to appear. Then one day in the autumn I suddenly came across the delicate, papery orange globes I had been waiting to see! As everything else in my garden was gradually slowing down for winter rest I suddenly had these bright, jaunty orange globes bobbing about happily and the sculpture just followed. The orange globes became spotted globes, and then the spots gradually colonised the entire piece but can you still see that globe?
Spotted is made of roofing felt, steel and resin.
PRICE: £1,700
To enquire about purchasing this sculpture please contact events@leeds-castle.co.uk
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