Metal work

Graham Dore

Graham Dore metal work artist
Graham produces a variety of artwork ranging from wall hanging pieces and small items for use indoors, to larger sculptures for our outdoor display. The outdoor sculptures make a perfect focal points for gardens, lawns or patio areas.

‘Since childhood whilst working with my father, I have developed a keen interest in handicraft of all types including both woodwork and metalwork. Throughout my adult life I have continued to hone these skills, keeping up to date with emerging techniques and enhancing my workshop with better and more professional equipment as household budgets have permitted. More recently I have focused my lifelong interest in metal craft towards metal sculpture and in March 2010 I took voluntary redundancy and early retirement from a professional engineering career to allow time to cultivate this new found passion.

‘I get inspired when I am out and about kayaking, running, cycling or walking; apart from being out in nature these times are when my mind has a chance to wander.’

Martin Duffy

Martin Duffy sculptor
Martin has been a professional figurative sculptor since 1996. He studied figurative sculpture at Stafford Art Collage, under the R.B.S. sculptor Michael Talbot. Prior to this he was a professional woodcarver. He has also worked as an assistant to a number of sculptors including John McKenna, Jonathan Wylder and Irena Sedlecka.

Since 2002 Martin has solely worked on his own sculpture and has specialised in commissions covering a wide variety of subjects including dancers, children, animals, portraits and motor sport. He also has a range of limited edition sculptures covering a range of subjects including children, dancers and animals cast in bronze and other materials for the garden and home.

‘I try to create powerful and dramatic sculptures, which have a beauty of form. Sculpture should be tactile, drawing the viewer to want to interact physically as well as visually with the work. With a life time fascination with the way the body moves, I enjoy the challenge of capturing the essence of movement, balance and tension within a static sculpture.’

Always preferring to work whenever possible with life models it can take many months to produce a new life size sculpture. Once completed Martin always moulds his own work to make sure none of the detail is lost during this process. When the sculpture is cast in bronze, he takes a resin copy from his mould to ensure there is a hard copy as reference for him to work on the wax prior to casting, but also for use at the foundry once the bronze has been cast to ensure the same level finish and detail is retained in the final work.

Throughout the whole process Martin is able to control the quality and purity of the work even though the bronze casting is done at the foundry. Martin only uses British foundries to ensure his involvement at every stage of the casting and finishing. All non bronze sculpture is made from start to finish by him in his studio ensuring the highest standards of finish.

Martin’s work is exhibited at many outdoor sculpture exhibitions and he has been a regular exhibitor at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. His work is in private collections in Great Britain, America and Asia. He has been commissioned to produce work for many private clients as well as companies including in 2012 a commission to produce a sculpture for the entrance hall of one of the Olympic training venues.

Roy Dutton

Roy Dutton metalwork artist
Roy Dutton loves to work with reclaimed or found objects and breathing new life into them with alternative uses. He has a humorous take on objects, creating sculptural pieces to surprise and amaze.

'I have been making sculptures from mainly reclaimed or found objects as a living for about eight years. It all started whilst recovering from illness.

I found myself with plenty of time on my hands but low on finances, hence trying to create work from discarded scrap metal to give me more scope. Lately the metal side seems to be taking over from the wood.

I like to think my work contains a degree of my own sense of humour. I love giving things a new lease of life, sometimes in a way they were never intended to. If it makes you smile then it's worked.'

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey Sculpture
Paul has sold work all over the world, as well as to the Royal family, and has exhibited at Chelsea flower show on many occasions. 

His studio is set in the middle of the Hampshire countryside on the edge of a half-acre pond, which over the past fourteen years he has with his wife turned into a small nature reserve, which in turn has encouraged many of the birds he sculpts to show themselves in their true and natural light. The site was formally the old watercress beds for the Earl of Carnarvon’s Highclere estate (Downton Abbey fame) and is a 3 acre glade surrounded by agriculture. 2019 saw the addition of a house built across the water next to the studio.

Paul has been sculpting since the age of ten, having been introduced to woodcarving at primary school. Birds being an interest from an early age, having kept numerous species as pets in aviaries, he was keen to carve them in wood, birds however with their delicate features didn’t lend themselves to woodcarving, so the design had to be simplified, a style that combined with his other great interest Art Deco forms his work today, even though now working in bronze and resin gives an almost unlimited freedom in design

Steve Mansfield

Steve Mansfield Driftwood artist
Before becoming a full-time sculptor in 2012 Steve was a graphic designer and photographer.

Watching grebes dance and herons fish in a nature reserve...working as a volunteer warden on Skomer Island, spotting shearwaters, gannets and puffins, cormorants, razorbills and guillemots, black-backed gulls and kittiwakes...

I’ve always collected driftwood – worm eaten, cracked and weathered, until a eureka moment when two pieces joined together and a sculpture emerged.

Regularly in galleries from Dartmouth to Shropshire, my driftwood sculptures evoke a sense of wild places, and a reminder of windswept walks.

Chris Meares

Chris Meares metalwork artist
Chris has been interested in creating unique pieces of art since he was young.

In his 20s Chris moved to Spain and for several years worked with renowned sculptor Jill Cowie Sanders. Chris helped Jill create commission pieces and sculptures for sale.

On his return to the UK Chris has spent most of his time in the construction industry working on carpentry projects in particular.
Recently, Chris decided to apply his knowledge and love of creating bespoke pieces of sculptural art and approached The Salt Marsh Gallery as a suitable gallery to display his work. 

Carol Orwin

Carol Orwin Sculptor
I am an Animalier, interested in the muscular form, movement, power, and nature of the animal that I model. The sculptures vary in size from half size dogs to life sized ponies, also twice life-sized hares. I model in clay, and then make my own rubber silicone moulds as a limited edition. 

I cast in Polymer resins using metal fillers such as bronze, brass, copper, pewter, and also terracotta, and marble. 

I studied at High Wycombe College of Technology and Art, very much a life modelling and casting skills course, aimed at producing a working sculptor. Moved to Lancaster and worked as a sculptor, whilst preparing a portfolio. I was accepted by St Martin’s School of Art to study under Sir Anthony Caro and Phillip King on the Advanced Post Graduate Sculpture course. 

Studio at the Barbican, London from 1974 to 1977, then moved to Guildford to build my own studio. I have taught sculpture in adult aducation centres since 1973. I exhibited with the Young London Sculptors in Tavistock Park, and Waterlow Park. 

Work shown at: The Mall Gallery, The Yvonne Arnaud Summer Art Exhibition, Society of Women Artists, Fire and Iron Gallery, Chelsea Art Society, University of Surrey - Lewis Elton Gallery, Beaulieu, Fulham Palace, Hackwood Art Festival. 

I have work in collections in Israel, France, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, America, Germany, Canada, Holland, Norway, Ireland and Denmark.


Lucille Scott

Lucille Scott Blacksmith
I work as an artist blacksmith creating hand forged metal items inspired by nature and my love for dance and music. The appeal of working with iron lies in the fluidity of the metal and the ability to freeze movement in time. In addition, there is the traditional role of blacksmiths, the permanence of the work and passing on the tradition to all around us.

My work is constantly developing, in 2015 I launched Earth, Water and Fire, a collection of work using materials born of the earth, inspired by the sea, and formed in fire. This work was originally inspired by my love of colour but an aversion to painting metal, so I decided to add colour by using other mediums. The work is made in collaboration with other artists using crafts that naturally provide colour. In 2019 I started to fuse glass myself to allow me to extend the range unique of sculptures I create ….. so much fun to be had!


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