David Hensel

Outdoor Sculpture

Details: Category: Sculpture; Published on Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:52; Written by Loz; Hits: 361

These are large stone carvings, done where they stand.

Sculpture

Details: Category: Sculpture; Published on Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:49; Written by Loz; Hits: 270

A selection of sculptures.

Art is about opportunities, a chance to explore materials and techniques, awarenesses and illusions, with the hope that out of this will come something that is meaningful to others, that they can use in their own lives. It's a continually fascinating succession of paradoxes.

I have always loved carving as a way of making shapes, because it is slow, uses nice tools, and allows the gradual discovery of possible illusions. All my sculpture is in some way figurative.

I like combining various materials, which usually involves finding new methods and processes, and one thing continually leads to another.

Some recent sculptures hang on the wall, maybe because people don't have pianos to stand them on any more, maybe because this is similar to my jewellery which is one sided, and also because it plays with people's expectations for sculpture: often they want to touch sculptures even though I don't touch them when making them except with the tools. Rather I make them by visual reference, by how the light and shade is helping the illusion to emerge. You don't touch paintings after all.

Some of these are still available.

granite 6 foot high
wall hanging, painted oak, 48cm high
wall hanging, yew wood, 40 cm high
granite
granite 6 foot high
redwood, 42cm high
0.75 life size
copper and granite, 18cm high
resin, gold leaf, 18cm high
purbeck marble
grantie, 5 foot high
marble, lead, paint, 72 cm high
wall hanging, painted oak - glows in the dark, 42 cm high
plaster for bronze, 50 cm long
58cm high
jesmonite on slate, boxwood
marble, 77cm high
death mask, self portrait, lilfe size
anjan wood, 42 cm high
painted resin, gold leaf, 30cm high
painted wood, 220cm high

Sculpture

Details: Category: Sculpture; Published on Saturday, 14 January 2012 15:28; Written by Loz; Hits: 273

We have art forms for all of our various senses, all aspects of our personal style, and many art forms are a kind of choreography where we mentally try on the art object and intuitively impersonate its qualities. It's interest in how this works that motivates both my sculpture and drawing.

How long you can work in any medium depends on practicality as much as expressiveness: jewellery-scale carving now needs better eyesight, large stones are too heavy, and obviously the fashions of what sells affects it, but I seem to revolve round three or four areas of image making: jewellery, larger sculpture, drawing and photography.

I've always loved carving and continually come back to it.