Helen Sinclair

I have been making sculpture for over thirty years and the process is still a delight to me. With every piece I make, I find the working process both comfortingly familiar and refreshingly surprising.

Although not the only subject I work from, the human form is the one I keep coming back to: the actual figure (in movement and at rest, clothed and unclothed) and the figure as depicted by other artists in any medium and at any phase in history.

I make semi-figurative sculpture, cast into either resin or bronze from originals which I make in plaster, clay, wax, cardboard, wood.
The materials I work with are as stimulating to me as the subject matter.
I live by the sea and collect driftwood, broken furniture, discarded plastic debris and other beach-found ‘stuff’, all of which regularly introduce new and unexpected vocabulary to explore.
I have made small and large sculpture entirely of found material. These are all foundry-cast by the traditional lost wax method.

Any of my small pieces can be thought of as maquettes for larger pieces.

Many of my pieces are cast in editions and sold via exhibitions. Others are commissioned - for instance by Gary Rhodes for one of his restaurants, by the Vicar of All Saints in Fulham (for the churchyard) and by Chichester Cathedral for the grounds of an historic almshouse.

I exhibit widely in the UK and have work in private collections on four continents.