Jean Buchanan Animal Sculptures & Artwork

Jean is inspired by watching animals in motion.

It can be a deliberate investigation, or a moment in time spotted whilst watching animals moving.

For example, the ‘Deerhounds at Play’ were inspired by glimpsing her deerhounds charging round the field, and spinning around playing with each other - The ‘Labrador retrieving a Pheasant’ is based on her grandson’s dog.

She also works from photographs to back up her ideas, and researches anatomical studies. Once an idea begins to form, she then does large scale working drawings to try out variations of the idea until she is happy with the composition.

At that point she then constructs a metal armature to support the sculpture whilst she is modelling it. Her preferred mediums are clay or wax, depending on scale and complexity. Once completed they are produced in small editions in Bronze (usually 3, but occasionally up to 9) and Bronze Resin (usually 12 but sometimes 25).

She can accept Commissions for individual animals, her most recent being 'Podge', a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

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