“How fantastic! A real treat! Feast for the eyes!”
GEOFFREY DASHWOODGeoffrey Dashwood was born in Hampshire in 1947. At fifteen he won a place on merit to study fine art at Southampton College of Art but preferring an outdoor life and studying directly from nature, he left soon afterwards.For five years he worked for the Forestry Commission as a keeper in the New Forest but after illustrating a New Forest guide for the Commission, most of his time was soon taken up illustrating for them. In 1980 Geoffrey discovered a preference for working the three dimensions of sculpture. His first pieces were highly detailed realistic studies echoing his earlier drawings, very much in the mainstream tradition of English wildlife. Finally he broke away to create larger, boldly modelled sculptures which, contrastingly, are a very personal interpretation of nature. The essential character and personality of a species is well established in bronzes which, more importantly, succeed and please as pure sculptural form. |