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jo burchell

This artist accepts commissions

Mediums Used

Galvanized Barbed Wire, steel frame, Barbed wire, Sterling Silver Wire on oiled wood, Rusted Barbed Wire, Steel, Copper, galvanized wire, Galvanished Steel,

Jo Burchell studied art first at Farnham and then Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, obtaining a Degree in fine Art painting. After a break to follow another passion for several years as a professional yachtswoman, she took up the wire cutters and welding mask to begin creating drawings in air. A theme of linear energy has pervaded throughout her work from the very first, and now is being explored using steel, copper, barbed wire and most recently silver. Animals are the subject matter, mostly those that surround her in her life in Dorset and from her childhood in the New Forest.

I like to draw and bend metal. Capturing an animal mid movement is something I dream about and can see steel twisting round to follow bones and ligaments of horses hocks, ears and the fluent racing lines of a lurchers rib cage. The tactile quality of working with silver wire is alluring and provides a different challenge to that of barbed wire and steel, not least of all in the change of scale.

Sculptures by jo burchell

Lazy Stretch (Metal Wire Lurcher Hound Dog statue)

£1,417

Aristocrat (Wire life size Greyhound sculptures statues)

Silver Buzzard 1 (Sterling Silver Wire Bird of Prey statue)

£1,584

Wolfhound (Wire Abstract To Scale Dog Garden Sculpture)

£1,584

Watching Hawk 2 (Wire Raptor Bird of Prey statue)

£784

Horse 3 (Metal Wire Horse Stead or Mount sculpture)

£8,000

Racing Lurchers (Metal Wire Lifesize Running statues)

£3,667

Credentials

Biography

Jo Burchell was born in the New Forest, she followed her talents through school and on to a degree in fine art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.

She spent three years ricocheting around subject matters but slowly started developing a theme in two dimensions that has continued to thread its way through all her work in every medium.

For several years after college she stayed on in London pursuing her work on the flat. She painted commissions, worked as an artist in residence at her old school, King Edward the VIth Southampton, and exhibited in group shows and alone.

Then a break came along in the form of a round the world yacht race. Sailing had been a passion since childhood, so she abandoned the frustrations of painting and drawing and for six years focused on the sport. Traveling around the planet by ocean and air to race, she became a professional yachtswoman, reaching the pinnacle of her career in 2002 by joining the girls team "Amer Sports Too" for the Volvo Round The World Race.

Having achieved that, alongside other records and races, she could now hang up her oilskins with satisfaction and return to Dorset to rekindle her creative aspirations.

The pause from art for several years has served not only as an enthusing and refocusing mechanism but has allowed a discovery of artistic identity and direction.

Jo Burchell is now building sculptures in her studio in Dorset, drawing both in air and on paper in order to decipher and divulge the structural movement of her subjects. This constant return to the internal form of things she sees around her has been the emerging theme since her degree. It reveals itself in her drawings, sculptures and paintings, regardless of the subject matter.

Influences

Elizabeth Frink and the drawings of De Vinci provided a set of imagery, which from childhood has been an aspiration of presence and motion.

Teaching Experience
King Edward VIth School, Southampton. Art to age 11-18yrs.

Categories

This artists work is found in the following categories on site:
Animal Abstract Contemporary Modern Stylised Minimalist Sculptures Dogs Sculpture Fabricated or Forged Metal Abstract sculpture Field Sports, Game Animals Sculptures Stylized Animals Sculptures Wire Mesh Netting Chicken Gauze Sculpture Statues Animal Kingdom Sculpture & Statues Animal Memento happy Reminder sculpture statue statuette Commission and Custom and Bespoke sculpture Statues Custom Commission Bespoke Animal Sculpture Dogs Hounds Bitches Puppies Sporting and Racing Domestic Animal Sculpture Garden Or Yard / Outside and Outdoor Sculptures Inside Sculpture Life Size Animal Sculpture LIfe Size Dog Sculpture Statues Little Animals Sculpture Outdoors Garden or Yard sculpture Outside Realistic Representational Lifelike Animal sculpture statue Realistic Representational Sculpture Sculpture or Statues made from Metal Rods or Bars Yard Outdoor Sculptures Birds in Flight, Birds Flying Sculptures or Statues Birds of Prey Raptors Hawks Eagles Falcons Owls Sculptures Precious Metal Precious stone Sculpture Statue Ornament Figurine Statuette Small bird sculptures Stylised Birds sculptures/statues/statuary/ornaments figurines/statuettes Animals Hunting, Chasing and Pursuing Prey Sculptures Dogs Wild, Foxes, Wolves, Sculptures / Statues Pet and Animal Portrait Custom or Bespoke or Commission Commemorative or Memorial sculpture statue Wild Animals and Wild Life Sculptures Contemporary Abstract / Stylised / Minimalist Bird Sculptures Perched Birds sculptures statues carvings Wild Bird Sculptures Farm Yard Sculptures Horse Sculpture/ Equines Race Horses Pack HorseCart Horses Plough Horsess Horses Abstract/Semi Abstract /Stylised/Contemporary/Modern statues sculptures statuettes Horses Outdoors, Outside, Life Size, Big, Large, Huge Sculptures Statues memorials commissions custom made

Tags

This artists work is found in the following tags on site:
Contemporary Grey Hounds sculptures Life Size Greyhounds sculptures Metal Greyhounds statues Playful Dog statues sculpture of Playful Hounds Wire Dog Garden statues Wire Grey Hound Sculpture Wire Greyhound sculptures Wire Modern Grey Hounds sculptures Contemporary Dog sculptures Dog sculpture greyhound sculpture greyhound sculptures in wire Life Size Grey Hound statues Life Size Wire Dog sculpture Life Sized Grey Hound sculpture Lifelike recognisable Greyhound Sculpture Lifesize Greyhound Garden Sculpture modern sculptures of dogs sporting dogs sculpture wire dogs sculpture Contemporary Silver Hawk statues Little Modern Hawk statue Little Wire Bird sculpture Silver Wire bird statues Small Silver Bird sculpture Small Silver Buzzard sculpture Small Silver Hunting Bird sculptures Small statue of Raptors Wire Birds statues Life Size Wire Hound statue Life Size Wolf hound statue Modern Wire sculpture of Hound Outdoor Wolfhound statue Playful Dog sculpture Playful Wolfhound Wire sculpture Steel Wire sculpture of dogs Wire Hound sculpture Wire Stylized Wolfhound sculpture Bird of Prey Wire statuettes Contemporary Hawk sculptures Metal Wire Raptor sculptures Mixed Wire Hawk sculpture Modern Contemporary Perched Hawk statues Modern Wire Bird sculpture Perched Hawk sculpture Steel Wire Hawk sculpture Wire Hawk sculptures Equestrian Garden statue Life Size Horse sculpture Life Size Horse statues Life Sized Equine statues Rearing War Horse sculptures Steel Rod Horse Garden sculpture Steel sculptures of Horses Wire Life Sized Horse sculpture Wire Rampant Horse sculpture Contemporary Animal Garden sculptures Coursing Dog sculptures Metal Outdoors Dog sculpture Post modern Hound Dog sculpture Wire Coursing Hounds statue Wire Lurcher statues Wire Racing Dog sculptures Wire Racing Dog statues