April 29, 2016

A Favourite Sculpture - Art by Sarah Myers

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Minerva in Pearls, Sarah Myers


With her gentle smile, lowered eyes, pearl necklace and tall helmet, this sculpture remains one of my favourites I have made, and my largest. She is life-scale or perhaps a little more.

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Minerva in Pearls, Sarah Myers
Close-up
She was inspired from a sixteenth-century portrait of a young Dutch woman, Margarita Trip. The artist Ferdinand Bol dressed her in costume as Minerva and portrayed Margarita teaching her younger sister Maria Trip. I think in my sculpture I have used the mythological reference slightly more seriously and as a more intregal part - not indeed as homage to the Greek deity Athena (Minerva), but abstractly in praise of wisdom and the wisdom of elder sisters in particular.

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Minerva in Pearls, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in stoneware

A sculpture this size takes a huge amount of clay. In this case, she consists of stoneware I mixed by hand and kneaded carefully to remove air pockets. The recipe was designed by my sister Amy Myers - it is a clay of some resistance and strength even in its raw form. The sculpture was then built over a period of three days. I work directly into the clay with a rapidity which is partly to avoid the damage that too-early drying can create, but also to preserve the spontaneity and immediacy of the human touch.
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Minerva in Pearls, side view

    All art and photography by Sarah Myers
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Minerva in Pearls, Sarah Myers
Detail of face and helmet
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Minerva in Pearls, Sarah Myers

April 17, 2016

The Hat - Painting by Sarah Myers

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Hat, Sarah Myers
Acrylic on canvas


The lady leans forward in the shade of her brilliant red hat. Her chin rests on her hand and she looks just slightly pensive, lost in thought – but she is clearly ready for the summer, the sunlight and the long, bright days… Painted in acrylic on canvas.

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Hat, Sarah Myers.  Detail

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Hat
Painting by Sarah Myers

April 9, 2016

Kneeling Woman - Sculpture by Sarah Myers

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Kneeling Woman, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in terracotta

Kneeling – perhaps dancing – the sculpture poises her delicate arms out and upward; in these images she is holding aloft a branch of brilliant bougainvillea flowers. She was finished after two days' effort, a short time that was mainly a race against the rapid drying of her tiny fingers in the desert atmosphere. After the kiln, she is a light but rich terracotta red, her colour that of a very handsome clay whose formula was developed by my sister Amy Myers. The spontaneous backward turn of her head and neck, the light lifting of her arms, the sense of motion, match the bright colour of the clay and the sunlight in which these pictures were created.

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Kneeling Woman, Sarah Myers
Detail of face
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Sarah Myers
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Kneeling Woman, Sarah Myers
View of back
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Sculpture, Sarah Myers.  Detail of face.
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Kneeling Woman.  Detail of hand.
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Kneeling Woman.  Sarah Myers
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Kneeling Woman, Sarah Myers
From direct front
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Kneeling Woman, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in terracotta