Strange Beasts - Lavit Gallery - Cork - 2020
Study - Figure with a Horse
Figure with a horse - Marble - 2020 - 38 x 32 x 25 cm
This composition turned out to be a study, in the end, an investigation. I added a piece of marble to the base to gain height and removed a portion of it again to alter the angle. It started out as a figure astride a horse but I wasn’t sure about the scales that were developing so I repositioned the figure to standing, whilst I still could. Now with 6 supports in comparison to the usual 3 or 4, I thought I could go lighter on all, which I did and this produced something novel for me. However a tiny surface crack appeared in the wrist of the figure’s right arm which isn’t through-and-through; a possibility with marble more so than with limestone where in the case of the latter it will be through. In this case, I’m assuming it was caused by the leverage exerted upon it whilst working on the elbow of the same arm not discounting for the slightness of the wrist.
All in a study.