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Gannets greeting£2,000.00Medium: ancaster limestone
Dimensions: 90 cm x 35 cm x 25 cm -
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Gannets, working drawing£150.00Medium: mixed-media on paper
Dimensions: 42 cm x 30 cm
Note: framed -
Butterfly forms£2,250.00Medium: English alabaster
Dimensions: 32 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm and 30 cm x 18 cm x 4 cm -
Gannet, preening form£2,700.00Medium: bronze
Dimensions: 70 cm x 28 cm x 7 cm
Note: edition of 5 -
Gannets, preening form£900.00Medium: ancaster limestone
Dimensions: 35 cm x 45 cm x 22 cm
© The Land Gallery 2011
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Extract from ‘Drawing Birds’, by John Busby
“I sat on the Bass Rock with forty thousand gannets as I had each July for the past few years. Prime nesting places are on the sheer cliffs but many birds nest on the rocky ground where you can get close enough to them to draw. The gannet is a white bird as big as a goose, all curves and angles. In contrast to its sharp beak and triangular folded wings with their boney projections, the birds head and breast are invitingly rounded and plump. Their beautiful forms are a sculptural revelation. The gannet is a bird of contrasts, by nature at once soft and fierce, in form both rounded and angular. It is a gift to a sculptor. Having watched and drawn them, their activities and related forms were in my mind’s eye as I carved and tried to get a sense of them into my sculpture. Whenever the stone threw out an angle or a curve it invited me to make of it a form corresponding most nearly to what was on my mind.”
Madeline Goold
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