Ceramics

'Owl Tower II', glazed ceramic, 35 x 16 x 16 cms

'Owl Tower III', glazed ceramic, 38 x 17 x 18 cms

'Resurgence', ceramic with velvets + enamel tips, 31 x 30 x 27 cms,

'Cactus Ark', ceramic glazed stoneware, 24 x 23 x 12 cms

Forest Guardians, Painted Terracotta Earthenware, 37 x 32 x 12 cms

'New Life', Glazed Ceramic, 21 x 11 x 12 cms

'Menhir Bird', glazed stoneware, 33 x 17 x 11 cms

'Green Cactus Ark', glazed earthenware, 25 x 23 x 13 cms

'Forest Guardian 5', 34 x 28 x 15 cms, painted terracotta

Forest Guardian 1, glazed stoneware, 26 x 25 x 17 cms

'Arboreal Embrace', painted terracotta, 20 x 15 x 9 cms

'Owl Stands', 52 x 19 x 30 cms, vitrified black stoneware

Animal Bridge I, glazed earthenware, 15 x 18 x 6 cms

'Life Flow', Painted terracotta stoneware, 35 x 35 x 18 cms

'Forest Guardian 6', 36 x 30 x 12 cms, painted terracotta

Forest Guardian 2, glazed stoneware, 33 x 33 x 16 cms

Animal Bridge IV, glazed earthenware, 13 x 16 x 5 cms

Animal Bridge V, glazed earthenware, 24 x 30 x 8 cms

Forest Guardian 3, glazed earthenware, 20 x 19 x 8 cms

'Bear Guardian', 19 x 27 x 8.5 cms, glazed stoneware

Small Iron Horse, glazed earthenware, 13 x 13 x 7 cms

Sun Bear, stoneware with red slip, no glaze, 26 x 26 x 17 cms

Floating Bear, glazed earthenware, 17 x 23 x 8 cms

Animal Bridge II, glazed earthenware, 24 x 18 x 7 cms

Animal Bridge VII, glazed earthenware, 16 x 22 x 6 cms

“Myths…. shape different parts of the world inside our heads… as encounters with the inapprehensible, the numinous….” A.S.Byatt, Ragnarok.

Sadie Brockbank’s sculptures, paintings, collage and drawing have stayed fresh and surprising encounters with myth for me over many years. Curves and forces move in the sculptures and paintings complemented by colour or mass so as to catch a moment in some undefined story. Elephants, dog-people, night-birds or deer, the bird on the shoulder, remain absorbing and grow with repeated looking. Sadie’s observation is deep, accurate and precise; her composition of forms, which hint at narrative but aren’t limited by it, represent an unusual talent and vision.

The photographs on this web-site can’t convey the solidity and perfection of movement and poise in the three-dimensional sculptures or the accuracy of line in the pictures, collage and drawings, or the subtlety of colouring apparent in all the pieces. They need to be seen as originals. If you respond to, and can chose to own, one of Sadie’s pieces, it will grow in your sight and enrich a living space indefinitely.

Prof. Michael Shaw