paul gervis
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He is a British sculptor who has lived and worked in Columbia for 40 years where he runs a pottery of international repute, a sculpture school, and farms. His skill at interpreting the human form, particularly children and teenagers at rest and play, is exquisite.
His sculptures combine realism, Comedy and sensuality, and inspired by Manet`s Dejeurner sur l`herbe his mean are clothed and his woman and children most often naked. They are also “alive”. Far from posing elegantly on a pedestal in art school poses, they are flirting, arguing, drinking, and the children are cycling, swinging on tyres or fishing
Sculptures by paul gervis
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Born in 1933, educated in Winchester and Cambridge on going down from Cambrdige in 1957, worked in advertising with Colman, Prentice and Varley in London, Married in 1959, and posted to Colombia in 1961, Joined Yardley in 1964 and was general Manager of Yardley Colombia until 1974.
Appointed to the main board in London in 1974, 1976 returned to Colombia while remaining on the board to run North and South America. During this periood, spent much of his spare time between business trips making pots and small scale sculptures. Left the Company in 1981 and set up a pottery in Bogota selling a wide range of hand decorated stoneware and slipware casts of his sculptures beginning with a seriesof about 50 small figures "The Children of Colombia" slip cast 40 of each child which all sold.
In 1984 started a sculpture school in Bogota. 1994 opened large gallery for the expanding pottery range, for his wife`s slipware and oil paintings, his own sculptures and local craft work. At the same time, started producing life size sculptures in clay fired to Stoneware temperatures with resin patinas. These have always been exhibited in the garden of his gallery and periodically in special exhibitions.
At the same time, wrote some eight musical reviews and directed them for the English language theatre group in Bogota. 1997 started exporting his pottery and Colombia crafts and furniture. 2000 started work on his current sculpture venture "The party in the Empty Garden"
