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adrian flanagan

This artist accepts commissions

Mediums Used

Bronze, Weather Clouds Wind Sculptures,

As a sculptor, Adrian Flanagan had a relatively late start and is completely self-taught. `I went to university to read medicine and then osteopathic medicine later. But, if I had my time again, I`d probably opt for Art School.`

That said, his thorough knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics informs his approach to his work. `The basis for my animal sculpture is accurate anatomy. That lends proportion and movement more naturally to a piece. For me it is critical. If that foundation is right, I feel the essence of the subject emerge. If I don`t get that feeling, the sense that the piece is living, I discard it and start again.`

He brings his experiences of living in Africa and his extensive travels around the world, observing all manner of wildlife, to his sculpture. `I cannot create a sculpture without observing the animal in its natural environment. That gives a piece of work authenticity, that invisible something that cannot be articulated. I like to think of it as spirit.`

Each of my pieces is cast at the Talos Art Foundry in Hampshire.

All pieces are limited editions and come with certificates of authentication.

Sculptures by adrian flanagan

Katrina Abstract Hurricane Bronze Wall sculpture

£5,950

Cruising Shark

£1,650

African Fish Eagle Small Bronze Catching Fish Sculpture

£3,250

Horse and Cobra Sculpture

£2,650

Running Cheetah, Small Lifelike Bronze Sculpture,

£2,175

Lioness Little Bronze Prowling Hunting Sculpture

£2,450

Red Stag

£2,350
Biography

Adrian Flanagan was born in Kenya and grew up immersed in the wildlife of Africa. Those were the days when the government paid anyone with a gun (and all the farmers had them) to hunt and kill leopards, considered vermin because of incessant raids on villages, decimating livestock especially chickens. Game roamed the plains in vast herds, the predator cats did not go hungry for long and the atrocity of poaching, though it happened, was on nothing like the scale seen today.

Adrian was educated at Stonyhurst College, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, King`s College London and the British College of Osteopathic Medicine. It was here that he developed a keen interest in anatomy and biomechanics.

After some years in clinical practice, Adrian started a food distibution business and wrote a novel. One of his childhood ambitions, to sail alone around the world, finally came to fruition when on 28 October 2005 he set off from Southampton, UK aboard his own yacht, Barrabas on a challenge that would test the limits of his endurance. His route `vertically` around the earth via Cape Horn and the Russian Arctic had never been attempted.

Adrian arrived back in the UK on 21 May 2008 to be greeted with a Royal Navy escort and a helicopter vanguard from the Fleet Air Arm. His book of the voyage was published in 2008 and will be republished by Bloomsbury in April 2018.

It was while at sea that Adrian - who had never sculpted but had always been fascinated by sculptural form and texture - sensed a shift in priorities and made the decision to educate himself in sculpture and particularly in bronze as a medium. `I`d never made anything three dimensional, not even at school, not a clay pot, nothing.`

The combination of his experiences in Africa - which continued well into adulthood with frequent visits to South Africa - a fascination with anatomy and movement, a desire for artistic expression and an instinctual sensing that now was the time to begin to sculpt has led him on this journey. `All art whether it`s literature, painting, sculpture or whatever else must come from a deep-seated need within the artist if it is to hold within it that depth and passion which gives the work authenticity.`

For smaller pieces, Adrian works mainly with polymer clay. His pieces are cast at the Talos Art Foundry in Hampshire and are all limited editions.

`Just as a writer must create characters who then come alive and begin to act in unpredictable ways, so to with sculpture. I wait for that moment when the piece I am working on suddenly becomes real and begins to dictate to me what it wants, how it feels. My job is to translate those desires, to let the piece tell its own story.`

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This artists work is found in the following categories on site:
Abstract Interior Indoor Sculpture Statue Abstract Modern Contemporary statues sculpture statuary Abstract Modern Contemporary Wall Sculpture Abstract Water Droplets Sculpture Statues Bronze Statue Sculpture Circular Round Sculpture Cloud, Breeze, Wave and Wind Sculptures Collage Abstract Contemporary sculptures Commemoratives and Memorials Sculptures Contemporary Abstract Modern Sculpture Hanging Suspended sculpture Statues tatuette High & Low Relief Sculpture & Panels High Relief or Haute Relief Carving Sculpture Wall Panel casting in Bronze / Copper Low Relief Sculpture Marine Maritime Water Sea sculpture statue statuette Modern Abstract Contemporary Avant Garde Sculptures or Statues or statuettes or statuary Realistic Representational Sculpture Round Disk, Dish, Flat Circular Ring Shaped Sculptures / Statues statuette statuary sculptures/statues Silhouette, Flat, or Thin or Two Dimensional Bas and Low Reliefs Sculptures or Statues Spiral Twisted sculpture/statue/carving Swirling Abstract Contemporary Sculpture Wall Mounted or Wall Hanging sculpture Wall Panel Carved Engraved Cast Moulded Sculpture Statue plaque Abstract Animal sculptures Abstract Fish sculptures Abstract Waves Torrents Rapids Riples Contemporary sculptures statues African Animal and Wildlife Sculptures American Wildlife Sculpture Animal Abstract Contemporary Modern Stylised Minimalist Sculptures Animal Kingdom Sculpture & Statues Animals Hunting, Chasing and Pursuing Prey Sculptures Animals on the Go Sculpture Aquatic sculptures Fish/Shells/Sharks/Seals/Corals/Seaweed Asian Animals sculptures or statues Blue Sculpture Bronze Animal Sculpture Bronze Little or Small sculpture Colourful Polychrome Sculpture Multi-Coloured Statues statuettes statuary European Animal / Wildlife Sculptures Fish Sculpture & Statues Indoor Inside Interior Abstract Contemporary Modern Sculptures Indoors Interior sculptures Inside Sculpture Interior Indoors Inside Sculpture Lifelike Animals Sculptures Lifelike Fish Sculpture Lifelike Realistic Coloured Painted sculpture Statue Little Animals Sculpture Little Fish Sculpture Painted Coloured Tinted Patinated Enamelled sculptures statues statuettes Predators Carnivores Hunters Flesh Eaters sculptures Sea Fish sculptures Sharks Rays Devil Fish Dogfish sculptures statues Shelf Size Sculpture Sign of the Zodiac Small Little Fish sculpture statues Stylized Animals Sculptures Tabletop Desktop Small Indoor Statuettes Figurines Sculptures The Americas: Animal / Wildlife Sculptures Wild Animals and Wild Life Sculptures Animal Memento happy Reminder sculpture statue statuette Animals and Birds in Flight sculpture Animals Eating Feeding Drinking sculpture statues Birds Feeding Sculptures Statues statuettes Birds Hunting Sculpture statues statuettes Birds in Flight, Birds Flying Sculptures or Statues Birds of Prey Raptors Hawks Eagles Falcons Owls Sculptures Birds Sculptures & Statues Bronze Bird Sculpture Statue Eagle Sculpture Lifelike Bird Sculpture Lifelike Realistic Fish Sculpture Little Bird Sculpture Statue Sea Birds Seagulls Sea Eagles Albatrosses Gannets etc.Sculptures Sea Shore Sea side, Foreshore sculpture statues Small Bird Sculptures Statues Triumph of Spirit over Adversity sculptures statues statuettes Wild Bird Sculptures Animals at Play Sculptures Bronze Horse Sculpture Horse Rearing Kicking Up sculpture statue statuette Horse Sculpture/ Equines Race Horses Pack HorseCart Horses Plough Horsess Horses sculptures statues statuettes Horses Small, for Indoors and Inside Display Statues statuettes Sculptures figurines commissions commemoratives Indian Animal Sculpture Lifelike Horse Sculpture Lifelike Realistic Animal Sculpture Lifelike Realistic Horse Sculpture Lifelike Realistic Snake Serpenj Sculpture Little Horse Scul[pture Little Reptile Sculpture Small Animal Sculptures Small Little Horse Sculpture Wild West, Red Indian, Buffalo, Native American, Cowboys sculpture Statues Animals In Flight on the Run Sculptures Big Cat Sculpture, Big Game Animals Sculptures Bronze Cat Large and Small Sculpture Cats Sculpture Cats Wild and Big Cats Sculpture Chasing & Pursuing Prey sculptures Cheetahs, Leopards Panthers Sculptures Statues Endangered Animal Species Sculptures Leopards Panthers sculptures statues Lifelike Realistic Cat Sculpture Oriental Animals and Plants Sculpture Small Little Big Cat Sculpture Small Little Shelf Sculpture Feline Domestic and Wild Cat Sculpture Lifelike Cat Sculpture Lions and Tigers sculptures statues Small Little Cat Sculpture Wild and Domestic Cat Sculpture Antelope sculpture Deer Sculptures Field Sports, Game Animals Sculptures

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