Artist’s Statement
Following a career in education working internationally, Jean has settled in the Waveney Valley and is now a full-time sculptor. Jean creates distinctive human and animal forms in both indoor and outdoor garden sculptures which play with conventional proportions giving much of her work an abstract quirky quality. Her love of yoga, cats, horses and her extensive travel is often the inspiration for her work. She uses a range of materials, including clay, Cassini’s plaster and steel, often using metallic coatings and patina to finish her pieces. After experimenting with wire and clay maquettes, Jean recreates selected pieces in wax, to produce unique foundry bronzes using the lost wax method.
Following a career in education working internationally, Jean has settled in the Waveney Valley and is now a full-time sculptor. Jean creates distinctive human and animal forms in both indoor and outdoor garden sculptures which play with conventional proportions giving much of her work an abstract quirky quality. Her love of yoga, cats, horses and her extensive travel is often the inspiration for her work. She uses a range of materials, including clay, Cassini’s plaster and steel, often using metallic coatings and patina to finish her pieces. After experimenting with wire and clay maquettes, Jean recreates selected pieces in wax, to produce unique foundry bronzes using the lost wax method.
Jean is an artist with Mortal and Strong charity, promoting women’s health awareness, and exhibited at their groundbreaking London exhibition, Scars of Gold, in 2025. As part of this exhibition Jean produced a sculpture of 100 women to celebrate the participants in the campaign and their scars of gold. Jean also does breast and body casting and often incorporates this into her sculptural pieces.
2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse and Jean’s focus this year is on creating a series of Foundry Bronze equine sculptures in her distinctive elegant designs.
Jean exhibits in galleries and Sculpture Trails and holds Open Studio at her home in the Waveney Valley in May and October. She loves to work with specific environments to create space sensitive outdoor sculptures and is open to commissions.
Medium: Bronze, cassini’s plaster, metallic coatings and patinas
Theme: empathy, health awareness and emotional response
