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22-07-2010, 04:43 PM   #1

If you go down to the woods today ......


Especially for Calismum .......





"Don't look behind you little sheep ......"


(by one of my favourite animals sculptors, Sally Matthews)



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22-07-2010, 05:05 PM   #2

Re: If you go down to the woods today ......


Okay tell me truthfuly......Angie and Moli.........where have you stashed your broomsticks.....you are both finding weird things in the woods......



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22-07-2010, 06:27 PM   #3

Re: If you go down to the woods today ......


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Okay tell me truthfuly......Angie and Moli.........where have you stashed your broomsticks.....you are both finding weird things in the woods......


That's one very mean-looking wolf! very clever stylish work, I'd never heard of Sally Matthews I'm ashamed to say.



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22-07-2010, 06:28 PM   #4

Re: If you go down to the woods today ......


Brilliant sculptures Angie, what are they made from ?



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22-07-2010, 06:30 PM   #5

Re: If you go down to the woods today ......


Wow - the first picture I actualy thought for a moment that some poor ewe had been rescued from a muddy ditch.

Excellent work - I do like her stuff. Thanks for posting - but I hope we never see a wolf in our fields!



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22-07-2010, 06:42 PM   #6

Re: If you go down to the woods today ......


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Brilliant sculptures Angie, what are they made from ?
They are bronzes Shelley.



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22-07-2010, 06:44 PM   #7

Re: If you go down to the woods today ......


I first came across Sally Matthews' work in Grisedale Forest in The Lake District some years ago. She had done some wild boar made from mud and twigs, that of course gradually disintegrated. They were wonderful. Her knowledge of animal anatomy is evident in her work - her dad was a vet.



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22-07-2010, 07:33 PM   #8

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Brilliant sculptures Angie, what are they made from ?
They are real animals I think who have been unfortunatly have been zapped.....................don't go into the woods.............



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22-07-2010, 07:45 PM   #9

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They are real animals I think who have been unfortunatly have been zapped.....................don't go into the woods.............
Ah yes, i think the witch from Narnia is up to her old tricks, where's Aslan when you need him



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22-07-2010, 07:56 PM   #10

Re: If you go down to the woods today ......


Stunning! I love this kind of public art, especially when it's relevant to the surroundings. In Reading, outside our scabbiest shopping mall we have some bronzes of . . . . a collection of shopping bags stood on the floor

There was also a sculpture trail at Christmas Common which was really magical; huge totem poles, a giant table with chequered blue/white 'cloth' on it. Sadly the Health and Safety powers-that-be decided it was not safe . . . so they junked it all.



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