Original fine art life size sculptures cast as limited editions, in foundry bronze and also in lead.
Public and private commissions undertaken

Fire pain and passion

Sculptures of Brian Alabaster

When considering Brian Alabaster's story, one cannot imagine that the battles of his childhood could do anything but affect his whole outlook.

Born in Stevenage in 1956 to a scientist and a teacher. Brian at the age of eight was diagnosed with Scoliosis. His spine was collapsing. The ensuing rebuilding, stretching and repairing of his body took years.

In 1994, Brian turned his back on a successful hard-won career in agriculture, which had taken him around the world. He moved to a farmhouse in Suffolk, to pursue his passion for sculpture, realised whilst undertaking sculpted portraits of his growing family. Brian developed the barns into studios and a bronze foundry. Unfortunately to see them literally go up in flames only a year later. Undaunted, and with typical zeal, he set about rebuilding his life and dream.
Within twelve months Brian was exhibiting his work at the Chelsea Flower Show and abroad. An international audience for his sensitive and empathetic child portraiture grew in the ensuing years.
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Not satisfied with commercial success Brian sought to redefine himself. Through rigorous analysis of his work and life, he strove to develop a more personal, visual language. Research into the workings of the human body, working from life and mastering the complex processes of bronze casting, resulted in a comprehensive and varied body of work, wrought from clay, wax and metal.

These evocations of the human condition now demand recognition. The irony of a man with his medical history immersing himself in the beauty and tenderness of the human body is complimented by a keen interest in the Ancients and the Renaissance. But it is through his small twisted and sinuous studies that we perhaps get closest to seeing a world through his eyes.

In his first solo London Show we see the evidence of 14 years of relentless hard work, we sense an appetite for experimentation and an inexhaustible passion for the human form. Yet one still gets the sense that it's just the beginning!

Laurence Edwards 2006

Fragments,bronze original made in collaboration with ceramacist Phillip Simmonds

www.philipsimmonds.co.uk

Cherries Watercolour 15" x 12"

This Exhibition also features paintings by Michael Aubrey

www.michaelaubrey.co.uk