Steve Winterburn (British born.)
Three’s company
Medium: Bronze on granite
Size: 80 x 20 x 12 cm
Signature: Edition 1/8
Provenance:
Direct from the artist’s studio, United Kingdom
Steve Winterburn – Three’s company
£11,700.00
In stock
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Artwork Description
After spending many years working on conservation projects at Elephant orphanages in Africa, Steve Winterburn spent a lot of time with baby elephants and fell in love with their personability and endearing traits, which were the founding inspiration for this sculpture. Steve wanted to capture the playfulness and innocence of these beautiful creatures and bring their characters and individuality to life, as these were sculpted from his own reference and time spent with the orphans, he has achieved this wonderfully with each of the three elephants having an encaptivating lifelike feel.
The composition furthers the playful essence of the piece with a pleasing linear form but with each of the orphans coupling gracefully with one and other creating a joyous flow to the sculpture. The title of the piece is a play on the saying “two is company, three is a crowd” which Steve thought was fitting as with these unfortunate orphaned elephants all company is welcomed and so came “Three’s Company”.
Biography
As a long serving trustee and wildlife conservationist enthusiast, Steve has travelled the world gaining inspiration and knowledge about animals. He began expressing the inspiration through painting, but with an engineering background it wasn’t long before he taught himself to sculpt and then later launched his own family run studio and foundry in 2002. The business has now flourished and boasts more than 20 years of experience in delivering a huge number of challenging and varied commissions.
Steve is a world renowned sculptor and works with a number of well established names from the fine-art world, including: Halcyon Gallery, Carrs Silver, Monaco Fine Arts, Hickmet Fine Arts, Sotheby’s, Christies, LAPADA and BADA. Along the journey of working with precious metals Steve and his family have obtained the skills to work with silver and gold and have been granted their own British Hallmark. Sports fans may also be familiar with his flagship piece at Wembley Stadium: this spectacular bronze commissioned by the charity Rugby League Cares, features five legends of Rugby League which is now considered a Wembley landmark in its own right.
