After a short time chatting with mixed media artist Mark Hearld, the rather uplifting realisation emerges that everyone is an artist – perhaps. Certainly everything is art when seen through Hearld’s eyes. It is his infectious wonder and delight at the living world around him that makes Hearld’s collages, prints…
RIGHT from the beginning, sporting art has been denigrated or, at best, dismissed as not worthy of consideration. When George Stubbs began work in the 18th century, equine and sporting subjects were considered fit only for inn signs because they weren’t religious or allegorical. His ground-breaking The Anatomy of The…
Inspired by wooden decoys and wildlife as a child, Stephen Henderson tells Janet Menzies about his unique passion and style for creating sculptures of flocks of curlew and grebes. Find out about how Virginia Woolf, Henderson’s great-aunt, and his father’s, Nigel Henderson, style and format creep in to his work.…
Equine portraitist Madeleine Bunbury, like a magnificent mounted Phileas Fogg, has declared her intention of going Around the World in Eighty Horses. When we spoke she was already in America and about to paint an iconic Western mustang as well as a racehorse and a hunter. “It would be a…
Jonathan Armigel Wade’s paintings offer a ‘curvispective’ on the joys of the countryside. He explains his unusual vision to Janet Menzies
Sporting artist Chris Sharp brings his salmon to life using layers of glaze and colour – as well as an understanding of their environment, as he explains to Janet Menzies
Sam Macdonald catches his fish twice. First he actually catches the fish, and then he relives the experience sculpting it. Janet Menzies meets a sporting artist who is recreating in metal the fleeting moment shared between man and nature. For more sporting artists, Clare Brownlow proves that inspiration can spring…
Clare Brownlow is proof that inspiration can spring from anywhere. For her it was an old-fashioned dipping pen, a pheasant tail feather used by her father to write his game journals, which she now uses to create her signature splatter effects. For more sporting artists, Jolyon Madden‘s work is as…
Paul Augustinus conveys the real Africa in his work rather than the clichéd view from the back of a safari truck. Animals often do not take centre stage in his work, but when they do they are emblematic of essential Africa. For more sporting artists, read about Bee Griffith and…
Bee Griffith refuses to dismiss dogs in her artwork, even though the sporting art world can all too often forget man’s best friend. Her beautiful canine portraits could signal their time is finally coming. For more exceptional sporting artists, take a look at Jonathan Sainsbury and his specialised artwork of…
