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Artist: Heather Crompton |
Description: Sculpture Heather Crompton is a visual artist and sculptor, currently living and working near Huddersfield. She is available for commission, exhibitions, education and community projects. Over recent years I have developed a real fascination with wood. I love the patterns and the textures within it, its tangible accessibility and the way it continues to move long after I have finished working it. Coming from a conceptual Fine Art background it was a real departure for me to move into figurative representation, especially in a medium saturated in such a history of technical accomplishment. I seek to create a thing of beauty, drawing on the features of the material, working with it and allowing an organic element of process to shape the resulting form. My studio work explores the rich history of wood carving. Working on the theme of the varied depictions of the human form in wood, I have looked at religious works, creating relief pieces that have been exhibited in places of worship and are yet accessible as objects of beauty in their own right. Increasingly, the commissions I undertake continue the figurative theme. Many of these are large standing stump carvings, their scale ensuring a much more stylised execution, often in prominent locations these pieces become landmarks, generating the interest of the local community. The process of making is to me as important as the final piece, whether this uses power tools or traditional tools and techniques. All the wood I use is locally sourced, reclaimed timber. It has rarely been treated and will therefore continue to move over time. It is this continuing process that sets this material apart. Wood is not simply a medium in which to represent beauty, it imbues the piece with its own. |
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