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glynis owen

This artist accepts commissions

Mediums Used

Aluminium, Sandstone, Cast stone, Bronze, Polyphant stone (soapstone), Bronze Resin, glass, Marble cast resin,

“Glynis Owen`s work travels the fluid line between figurative and abstract art.”

In stone, glass and metals, Glynis Owen creates distinctive civic, private and commemorative works from her studio in Hampstead, London.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a member and serves on the commitee of the Printmakers Council. An author of books on the techniques of sculpture, she is also a consultant and designer of awards. Her work has been commissioned and widely exhibited and is held in both public and private collections.

“Figure in landscape, landscape in figure”

Growing up in Sussex and Hampshire, the silhouette, contours and sense of landscape of the South Downs made a strong, early impression on me. The undulating lines, curves and textures became a formative visual reference that influenced the pared down figurative imagery of my work.

Materials and their unique features both intrigue and create an excitement and interest that carries the idea forward, providing a momentum. It is important to me that the material is allowed to speak for itself whether the work is in stone, glass or metal.

More recently my work has taken a new direction. A close collaboration with the commissioning architects, involved an extensive and absorbing exploration to create a memorable site specific work in aluminium, evolved from landscape images.

Recent work focuses on a more abstract sense of landscape imagery reflecting the diversity of the earth`s surface. Drawing from its geological formations and lines of erosion, the work is cast in metal from sands with burnished areas. This new series, combines the random, natural quality of the material from which it is created, cast into metal with highly polished areas that both define and reflect the surface detail.

I am currently working on a new series of stone carvings in limestone and alabaster.

Sculptures by glynis owen

Plane Geometry (Shiny Metal Shapes Bas Relief Plaque)

£1,834

Three a Day (Life-Size Bronze Apples and Pears statue)

£2,000

For the Love of Ermione (Double Lovers Carved Stone statues)

Regolith (Large Modern Abstract Metal Wall Panels/Plaques)

Stafford Faces (Bronze Wall Commemorative sculptures)

Jacqueline du Pre (Bronze Musician sculptures/statues)

Covent Garden Commemorative Bronze (Wall panel sculpture)

Polo Ponies (Cast stone Contemporary Modern sculptures)

Unsung Hero (Stone Head/Bust life size Carving statue)

£3,667

Elemental Dance (Contemporary Glass Female statue)

£2,667

Teaching Awards Trophy (Art Deco Commission)

Commitment (White Mable Engagement Ring and Hands statue)

£2,500

Coriolis (Small Circular Abstract Bronze Modern sculpture)

£2,500

Green Water Weave (Nude Female Swimmers Carving statue)

£20,000

Waterweave (Gold Bronze Nude Swimmers Wall sculpture)

£10,834

Twosome (Bronze Modern Arte Deco Heads Bust sculpture)

£5,334

Lovers Roundel (Circular Bas Relief Plaque sculpture)

£6,667

Talus Point (Shiny Rectangular Triangular Abstract plaque)

£3,000

Caldera (Small Circular Abstract Metal Indoor sculpture)

£3,333

Thinking Head (Modern Abstract Arte Deco Bust statue)

£5,833

Takes Two (Bronze Abstract Modern Faces Bust statue)

£8,333

See it My Way (Abstract Heads Busts Symbolic statues)

£7,500

Credentials

Biography

From her earliest years at art school, Glynis Owen`s sculpture reflects a fascination with materials and the exploration of their particularities and qualities to best express her tactile, abstracted imagery.

This perspective changed significantly after leaving Goldsmith`s College, to become assistant to the sculptor, Lynn Chadwick. In learning to construct his angular, welded sculptures for international exhibitions, her sculpture reflected a new focus in line, form and spatial relationship.

Consolidating this experience, Glynis Owen established her studio, first in Hampshire and later in Hampstead, London. Commissions followed for schools, colleges and civic situations where her responsive approach and attention to detail were reflected in successfully meeting the site-specific requirements of the project.

Her latest major project, working in close collaboration with the commissioning architects, has been to create a memorable, site-specific three-panel aluminium relief, evolved from landscape images. It was completed in 2011.

The work from the collaboration has inspired her to make a new series of smaller work (Terra Firma series) that extends her interest in the imagery of the earth`s surfaces and draws more directly on geological elements. She recombines them in an exploration, working with contrasts of line, contour, pattern, texture and reflective areas.

Influences

Early influences Wotruba, Zadkine and Brancusi

Current influences: Caro, Serra, Chillida, Judd

Reviews

There are still serious artists in Hampstead Ham and High 2016
Subtract the Square mile Sunday Times October 2015
Open House, London. 2011
Sculpture to honour fruit and veg market`s history.London News 20 October. 2006
A fitting Monument: Covent Garden magazine. 2006
Artist in Residence: Exclusive Magazine. February 2004
The Teaching Awards : Education Guardian 2004
Art in the Park: Country Landowner August 2003
The Teaching Awards: Education Guardian 2003
Love, Loss and Betrayal : Artists Newsletter. February 2002
The year of the artist : Natural Stone Specialist. Nov 2001
Touching Art for Tate Modern: Natural Stone Specialist.Nov 2000
Sculptor creates new `Oscar` for top film producer. Camden New Journal 9 11 00
A Winter Aesthetic. Gloss. Independent on Sunday. 4 Oct 1998
Tributes to duPre are set in stone: Strad. February 95.
A private collector in Switzerland: Stone Industries. Jan/Feb 1993
Sculptress angered by fate of sculpture : Guardian.29 November 1991
Art. Sculptures for Glyndebourne: Ham and High. May 24 1996
The neighbourly tribute to duPre:Ham and High. March16 1990
Mstislav Rostropovich with Glynis Owen`s new bronze of Jacqueline du Pre: Guardian. March 10th 1990
Uncanny twist to du Pre sculpture: Evening Standard. April 2nd 1990
Turning Sculpture into charitable art: Tiimes Group. April 2nd 1990
Cellist Sculpture on show Festival Hall: International press cutting bureau:8/16 March 1990.
Sculpture with Architectecture:Arts Review. February 1981
Open Air Sculpture in Britain: Zwemmer/Tate Gallery publication
Choosing stone for sculpture: Stone Industries. April 1980

Public Works

2004- 06 Covent Garden Commemorative Relief (Fruit Porter Bronze) Covent Garden Piazza, London
Commissioned by the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers

2003 Stafford Faces. Town Centre, Stafford
Commissioned by Mountford Pigott Architects

1980 -82 Family. Stevenage Town Centre, Stevenage, Herts.
Commissioned by Stevenage Development Corporation

1976 Guardian. Alton College, Hampshire
Commissioned by Hampshire County Council

Teaching Experience
HGS Institute, London Camden Arts Centre, London Bishop Otter College, Chichester, West Sussex Southampton College of Art, Hampshire West Dean College, West Sussex, Sussex New England College (British Campus), Arundel
Public Acquisitions
Sculpture – Public and Private Commissions and Collections: 2017 Sunny Art Collection, London 2011 Dale Loth Architects, Camden, London 2007 Lord Putnam, commissioned by Teaching Awards Trust 2003 Lloyds Building 2000 Tate Modern Resource, London 2000 ING Barings Bank, London 1998 Financial Risk Management, London and New York 1998 War Child Trophy 1998 Rochester Health Clinic, Surrey 1997 Nick and Annette Mason, (PinkFloyd) Art Collection 1995 Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda`s College, Oxford 1992 Private Art Collection, Lake Como 1977 Grantham Art Collection, Lincolnshire 1975 Junior Common Room, St Anne`s College, Oxford 1975 Worcester College, Oxford

Categories

This artists work is found in the following categories on site:
Angular Jagged Abstract Modern Contemporary sculpture statuary Bas Reliefs or Low Reliefs Focal Point Abstract Contemporary Modern sculpture statue Geometric Sculpture Indoor Inside Interior Abstract Contemporary Modern Sculptures Wall Mounted or Wall Hanging sculpture Abstract Plants Fruits Trees Leaves Flowers statues sculptures Fruit Sculpture Interior Indoors Inside Sculpture Organic/Abstract Sculpture Plant Life sculpture and Statues Still Life Sculpture or Statue Busts and Heads Sculptures Carved Stone, Marble, Alabaster, Soap Stone Granite Lime stone Sculpture Commission and Custom and Bespoke sculpture Statues Couples or Group Sculptures Glass or Acrylic Transparant Sculptures Love / Affection/Adoration/Passion Sculpture Architectural Sculptures Installation Sculpture Plaques, Medals, Medalions, Coins, Tokens, Commemorative Customised Commission or Bespoke Wall Panel Carved Engraved Cast Moulded Sculpture Statue plaque Animal Abstract Contemporary Modern Stylised Minimalist Sculptures Animal and Human Love sculpture or Statues Horse and Rider/Jockey Sculpture/Equestrian Sculptures Horse Sculpture/ Equines Race Horses Pack HorseCart Horses Plough Horsess Pet and Animal Portrait Custom or Bespoke or Commission Commemorative or Memorial sculpture statue Polo Pony and Pony sculpture / statue / statuette / figurine / ornament Portraits Commissions Memorials Commemoratives and Memorials Sculptures Men and Women at Work and going to work .Comuting Sculptures Statues Public Art Sculpture African Art Sculpture Statuary Male Men Youths Masculine statues sculptures statuettes figurines Stylised Heads/Busts Sculptures Females Women Girls Ladies Sculptures Statues statuettes figurines Musician and Musical Sculptures Portrait sculptures/Commission or Bespoke or Customised sculptures Dance Sculptures and Ballet sculptures Figurative Abstract Modern or Contemporary Sculptures Statues statuary statuettes figurines Mythical Legendry Folk Lore Sculptures Spiritual sculpture Bronze Little or Small sculpture Cloud, Breeze, Wave and Wind Sculptures Gleaming Shiny Highly Polished Stainless Steel and Precious Metals sculpture Round Disk, Dish, Flat Circular Ring Shaped Sculptures / Statues statuette statuary Calm Love and Affection Sculptures or Statues Happiness/Joy/Exuberance/Wild Pleasure sculpture Wedding Anniversary Gift or Present sculptures statues statuettes

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This artists work is found in the following tags on site:
Contemporary Art Wall Mounted Panels Contemporary Geometric Abstract sculpture Contemporary Squares Abstract statue Geometric Circles Squares Triangles statue Geometric Shapes sculpture Geometric Wall Mounted sculpture Glynis Owen Geometric sculpture Aluminium Indoor Apple statue Cast Aluminium Apple sculptures Glynis Owen Life Size Fruit sculpture Half Apple statue Indoor Fruit statues Life Size Apple sculpture Life Size Apple statues Life Size Apple statuettes Small Indoor Half Apples sculpture sandstone carved heads sandstone head carving sculpture of love Stone heads sculpture stone sculpture of four heads architect commissioned relief sculpture Architect commissioned relief statue Indoor Abstract sculpture landscape images sculpture wall relief sculpture Wall Relief statue Animal sculpture cast Horse statue four polo ponies sculpture Horse and Rider sculpture Horse sculpture polo ponies and riders sculptures polo ponies in cast stone sculpture Polo Ponies statue Commemorative Bronze Wall statue Commission Commemorative Bronzes Fruit Porter bronze sculpture Garden Wall Commemorative Plaque sculpture Public Plaque commission Panel Wall Mounted High Relief sculpture Worshipful Company of Fruiterers sculptures Black Carved Stone Head Carved Stone Glynis Owen Bust Carved Stone Male Head sculpture Contemporary Carved Stone Man`s Head statue Glynis Owen Stone sculptures Man`s Bust Stone Carving statue Soapstone Man`s Head Carving Stone Carved Unsung Hero Head bronze sculpture of Jacqueline Human Figurative sculpture Jacqueline Music Building sculpture Musical Instrument Sculpture Portrait Commission sculpture architect commissioned statue bronze plaque commission statue bronze relief sculpture commission public plaque sculpture historic theme sculpture Stafford Town Centre sculpture Abstract Glass Dance sculpture Abstract Glass Dancer statue Glynis Owen Little Dancer sculpture Little Glass Dance statue Modern Glass Ballet dance statue Small Glass Dance sculpture spiritual Dance Glass sculpture Stylised Contemporary Dance sculpture Abstract Disk statue Bronze Glynis Owen sculpture Bronze Round Abstract statues Circular Bronze Abstract sculpture Glynis Owen Meteorological sculpture Modern Abstract Circular statue Small Circular Swivelling statue Small Swivelling Circular statues Commitment Theme Glynis Owen sculpture Engagement Hands/Ring statue Engagement statues Glynis Owen Engagement Ring sculpture Haute Relief Engaged Hands sculpture High Relief Engagement statues High Relief Hands sculptures Marble Resin Hands sculpture