The Wildlife Artists Society International 2012
(Best Sculpture)
National Exhibition of Wildlife Art 2012
(Focus Optics Award - Best 3D Work)
Marwell International Wildlife Art Society 2012
(Best in Show and Best Sculpture)
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation - Wildlife
Artist of The Year 2013
(Winner 3D Category)
Sculpture by Deborah van der Beek displayed at Bath Abbey.
Deborah van der Beek’s ‘Collateral’, based on the skull of
a horse, is about the innocent victims of war. The artist was
inspired to make this piece after seeing a distressing image
of a mother and baby found dead and buried in rubble in
Lebanon. The warheads (rockets and mortar shells)
embedded in the sculpture are real ones from the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan. The bullets also are real, and
scattered throughout the sculpture are the day-to-day
essentials of life – such as a child’s shoe and a spoiled
head of wheat.
The piece was shown in the Abbey as part of this
year’s Bath Art Affair, which features a
sculpture trail around the city to
mark key points of historical
and architectural interest
with sculptures from a
variety of established
and emerging
artists.
Opus Studio takes Award for Best Window Furnishings Product of 2012.
The staff and team at Opus Studio are feeling
thrilled and delighted at the moment, having been
presented with the prestigious award for Best
Window Treatments Range of 2012 at Autumn
Fair at the NEC Birmingham.
Presented by Alan Hawkins, CEO of BIRA, during a
champagne reception hosted by the Home Decoration
Retailers' Association (HDRA), this accolade is awarded
annually following votes from the members of the
Association, and reflects their recognition of suppliers
that have provided them with true excellence of service
and innovation in a particular field.
Our sincere thanks to all those who voted for us.
Fred Gordon takes sculpture award at Bath and West art show.
The art exhibition returns to the Royal Bath
and West Show again this year with over 300
works by both amateur and professional
artists in a wide variety of media.
Fred Gordon, a very talented young artist,
won 1st prize in the sculpture category with
this captivatingly titled piece ‘Girls Night
Out’ in bronze resin.
Neil Mason’s Penguins steal a march on the competition!
Cold Cast Marble Resin Penguins, moulded and cast at Opus-Studio for the wildlife sculptor
Neil R. Mason swept from award to award across 2012 and into 2013.
They started their exhibition march in spring 2012 at the annual exhibition of The Wildlife Art Society
International at ‘Nature in Art’ Gloucester, then moved on in early summer to the National Exhibition
of Wildlife Art on the Wirral, Liverpool.
Then followed a late summer visit to Hampshire at the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society's
annual exhibition, and in June of this year the penguins reappeared in London, at the Mall Galleries,
for the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 exhibition.
The first sculpture 'Going, Going Gone'
consisted of 52 single penguins from a
combination of 5 variants, plus a number of
clear resin versions, and a 'melt' front piece
representing the end point on the penguins’
annual traverse across the Antarctic ice barrier.
The second sculpture 'Closing The Circle' consists
of 40 individual penguins matched from 4 variations.
This sculpture is a configuration representing a
colony as they begin to form a closed circle in
anticipation of a snow storm.
Neil has enjoyed considerable acclaim with these
sculptures with current awards including:
Neil’s web site is at www.neilrmason.com for more details. Our congratulations, and best wishes
for his continued success.
‘Silent Majority’
Aynhoe Park - Possibly the most exuberant collection you’ll ever see?
We were delighted to be asked to help create this fairytale Shoe
Artifact piece, featuring a crystal clear cast shoe entwined by
sinews of hand carved walnut.
This is a limited edition, conceived by the artist Georgina Goodman
in response to a commission by James Perkins, the flamboyant
collector and current owner of Aynhoe Park in Oxfordshire.
Bas-relief panel by Laura Lian, commissioned for SASC in Hythe.
The Small Arms School Corps is a section of the British Army
which is responsible for maintaining proficiency in the use of
hand-held equipment and support weapons.
This 4’ x 3’ bas-relief panel was commissioned to the
celebrated Somerset artist Laura Lian for installation into a
brick and stone monument near the site of the original
headquarters of the Corps in Hythe, Kent.
Cast by Opus Studio in bronze resin with a deep patination,
the plaque was unveiled by HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of
York in a ceremony earlier this month.
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“Imagine an alternative ending to the Cinderella story… she
loses her shoe whilst trying to escape before the clock strikes
12…The shoe lies undiscovered on the forest floor…Cinderella
is left in her impoverished state albeit happy with her one
perfect night…The Prince doesn’t get his fairy tale ending….
The glass slipper is claimed by the roots of the tree and
adorned with beautiful butterflies….A perfect moment stolen
and frozen in time” ~ Georgina Goodman, 2014
Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire
Detail of the bronze plaque
unveiled by the Prince this
month.
