James Connolly

LIVES:
Cotswolds

CAREER:
Not only is James a sculptor but he’s also a painter, The many different varieties and colours of limestone is where a lot of his inspiration comes from. He has over time developed his own individual style of sculpting, in which he seeks to abstract and harmonise the human figure into its essential blocks of form and interlocking shapes. James teaches from his studio.
“My labour as a stone sculptor is to take each fresh block of unplumbed, secretive stone, and working only with simple tools - mallet and chisels - to seek the shape hidden within the uncarved block, and with tender blows, release it to the light.”

MEDIUMS USED IN WORK:
Resin, plaster and metal sculptures, usually modelling the original in clay, and paints both figurative and abstract oils on canvas.

EXHIBITIONS:
Swell Gallery, Stow on the Wold, with the Cotswold. Holland House, Worc Broadway Modern Gallery, Worc Showborough House Sculpture Garden, Worc D'Arcy Gallery, Cheltenham Compton Cassey Gallery College Farm Studios, Minster Lovell Shieldbrook House Sculpture Garden

James Connolly sculpture for sale from The Sculpture Park is detailed below: