This bronze wildlife sculpture came to me after I did a couple of smaller hare sculptures. I did not want to be realistic, but more an idea of ‘hare’. The fact that I used scrim and plaster to build the sculpture really helped as I could not get too embroiled in detail!

Hares are very discreet wildlife animals…hardly to be seen by the human eye. They run fast, at speeds of about 45 miles per hour, making them the fastest wild mammal in the UK. What is more, they can speed up and slow down in seconds, hence why they have the ability to change direction incredibly quickly.

So I wanted to show a hare doing just that – twisting around a corner fast. I made it absolutely vast in order to create a statement piece for the garden. The ears are exaggerated and so are the long legs and big paws. The movement in the body is accentuated by the way in which I have layered the scrim and plaster. This creates strong gestural strokes. Whilst I had the hare sculpture cast with an electric blue patination, you could have a more traditional finish like foundry bronze or a colour of your choice. It can also be cast in iron (rust colour). As a bronze, it is produced as a limited edition of 9.

This wildlife sculpture of a larger than life hare looks amazing at the end of a long vista or on top of a slight hill or in the middle of a park. The sculpture holds its own space.

This sculpture can be cast in bronze as a limited edition of 9 or in bronze resin as a limited edition of 48. In all cases, it can be patinated to order.