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ABOUT ME

Sarah Goodfellow

I’m a fine art realist sculptor, primarily working in wet clay which is then painstakingly moulded and cast either in resin or bronze. I’ve always had a creative drive but only came to sculpting in recent years as my experiments in clay gradually became more and more sculptural. I went on to study the anatomy and techniques which allowed me to start producing the body of work that you see here.

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I’m particularly inspired by capturing both the mood and form of my subjects. I always try to give the viewer a sense of an active ‘presence’. I find that a pose can impart so much meaning, the squint of an eye, the set of a jaw, puckering of lips or furrowing of a brow can totally change the way that we respond emotionally to a sculpture.

I like to imagine what it would be like actually to reach out and touch the animals that I create - if they were to settle within arm’s length, what would it feel like to be in their orbit? We have a natural curiosity about the animals that we share the world with that draws us to them, but if we do manage to interact, these are usually such fleeting moments. I try to capture such an instant when I create a sculpture. I work from accurate skull and skeletal dimensions, hundreds of photos and the physical subjects themselves where I can (much harder to do this with a polar bear than a Bull Terrier!).

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Conservation is something that I feel passionately about so where I can, I pledge to donate a proportion of the sales of my sculptures to the WWF.

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