Bruce Little Started very young with plastercene on his grandmothers knee. She was highly motivated and very artistic and he has inherited these traits. His strength is his ability to capture the movement and character of his subjects, as well as their outward appearance.
His reputation has spread well beyond South Africa and he has been commissioned to make the out size bronze lions to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first ones at Longleat by Viscount Weymouth.
Sculptures by bruce little
Credentials
Exhibitions
yes
Self-taught, instinctual, Bruce Little sculpts to capture the spirit of the wild African creatures he has observed and guarded for most of his life. His technique captures the essential movement and attitudes of his subjects.
Born in South Africa, Bruce developed an early passion for the African wilderness through his childhood spent in the bushveld. He became a conservationist and professional game ranger, working at the famous private game reserves of Londolozi, Singita and then later Hopewell Private
Game Reserve which he established with a partner, restoring a beautiful tract of land to its original state. The twenty years spent in the wilderness has given Bruce invaluable insight into his subjects he holds so dear.
Bruce, whose sculptures range from miniatures to life size and larger, has exhibited internationally for the last 15 years with his bronzes in collections on all five continents as limited editions and private commissions.
Bruce is now a full-time sculptor living in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Without a doubt my grandmother was the person who instilled the love of art and nature in me. She was not only an incredible grandmother, mother and wife, but had incredible ability artistically and became very well known for her silk embroidery of birds and animals. She was the first person to thrust a ball of plasticine into my hands and guide me through the basics of sculpture and as a result, without her, my artistic journey may never have taken off. That defining moment for me, was when I walked into a gallery in Johannesburg while on leave while working at Singita Private Game Reserve, where I observed a few bronze sculptures of African animals and felt that they lacked movement and emotion and have been trying ever since than to merely reproduce an animal, for me it is not necessarily about strict anatomical correctness, but more about encompassing what the subject I am sculpting is all about. The presence, movement and attitude.
