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Philip Hearsey

Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts

After a formal training at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, Philip Hearsey continued exploring his more artistic interests, and he spent many years developing in different aspects of interiors, furniture and architecture. At current, Hearsey specialises in sandcasting to make sculptures that engage the quality of bronze as a noble material in its own right. He devotes his talents to making sculptures intimate in scale and intended for the interiors of home, office, yacht or hotel.

On his most favored material, Hearsey says, "Bronze is eternal - yet malleable and he loves the stuff. In its natural state the tone and depth of colour is sublimely beautiful, yet the surface is endlessly receptive to the transformative effects of oxidisation." He is intrigued by the surface and the alchemy of patination. Not because of any obsession with technique which is difficult to master, but because of the challenging possibilities and the unpredictability of the outcome.

In his work, there are no big ideas to express. Rather, the visual and the simplicity of shape is all-absorbing. His objects are exciting, intriguing and often tactile. Process, erosion, nature and time all have a part to play. His inspiration comes from everywhere and often in the most surprising places. Sometimes from a deep sense of place in the border and landscape of Herefordshire, almost Wales, sometimes from the sea, the big sky, clouds, objects seen walking or minute markings on a road.

What is in Philip Hearsey's head when he creates his work is deeply personal but it matters as much that the work engages the imagination of the onlooker to connect with a deep-rooted and instinctive appreciation of simple, universal forms. 

He has exhibited widely in solo exhibitions, mixed and open exhibitions, solo showcasing and art fairs.  His full exhibiting history is shown on his website.

His work is held in many corporate and private collections in the UK, Australia, USA, Caribbean, Hong Kong, Singapore, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Maldives, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, Italy and Greece.

54 × 20 × 13 cm
  • £1,975.00
45 × 14 × 14 cm
  • £2,250.00
39 × 25 × 17 cm
  • £1,500.00
58 × 28 × 10 cm
  • £2,975.00
12 × 38 × 41 cm
  • £1,500.00
45 × 21.5 × 8.5 cm
  • £1,500.00
26 × 55 × 6 cm
  • £1,750.00
45 × 39 × 10 cm
  • £3,750.00
43 × 28 × 14 cm
  • £2,350.00
18 × 26 × 16 cm
  • £1,750.00
9 × 48 × 10 cm
  • £1,575.00
53 × 23 × 9 cm
  • £2,975.00
55 × 35 × 16 cm
  • £1,975.00
53 × 28 × 10 cm
  • £2,975.00
48 × 52 × 14 cm
  • £4,750.00
45 × 39 × 10 cm
  • £3,500.00

Exhibitions

Pyramid Gallery, York 8th November to 20th January The Gallery at Ice, Windsor 21st November to 9th January Mitchell Gallery, Warwick ongoing "Under the Bed Sale" Cupola, Sheffield 14th january to 1st February "Under Welsh Skies" Oriel Cric, Crickhowell 29th January to 25th March Oxford Art Fair 7th to 9th February "Locality and the Local", Earsham Street Gallery, Bungay, Suffolk 8th February to 6th March Parallax Art Fair, Chelsea 20th to 22nd February Art of Poetry, Obsidian Art Gallery, Stoke Mandeville 21st March to 23rd April. Oriel Cric, accompanying the exhibition of The Royal Watercolour Society of Wales, 29th March to 19th May Beside the Sea, Bilston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton12th April to 14th June. Reading Art Fair 25th to 27th April Delamore, Devon Annual Show 1st to 31st May West Lavington Manor, Wiltshire 3rd to 22nd June "Experience Bronze", New Milton Art Gallery, Banchory, 6th June to 27th July Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire 2nd August to 7th September

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