JAMIE HART IS A SCULPTOR OF ENGLISH WOOD

Inspired by human form and the essence of nature that surrounds his studio in Hazelbury Bryan, Dorset in the UK. He works using a subtractive and sometimes reconstructive technique. Carving contemporary figurative and fluid abstract forms, he reveals the inherent quality of wood as a raw material. Mainly using waste and commercially unworkable wood to make his pieces, Jamie is able to embrace structural form and organic growth to show the stresses and balance that wood needs to maintain its life in the environment as a tree or something else.

ABOUT JAMIES WORK

An important characteristic of wood is organic growth, within this essential quality I find inspiration for my sculptural ideas. Wood has various elements important to the aesthetic which I hope to bring to my work. Wood has an inherent natural beauty like for instance the intertwining knots and whorls of the grain, and a host of other qualities and imperfections that ripple and eddy across and around the forms I work. Growth and movement seem organically linked and by sculpting the limbs, trunks and roots I find, which are often rotten or diseased enhances some of the unique property's each piece holds. I feel the tree is then able to live on in a new form.

The constraints that wood sometimes lays down give rise to the internal and external forms of the human anatomy. I also look for the figure in wood from a three dimensional perspective. Often with the harder and more unmanageable woods I am instructed what can be done, the end result being not always as I had planned.

The methods I use to produce my work can change daily. As for finishes, some of my work is left completely natural. While on others I may use oil, wax or a combination of the two. I also use varnishes and lacquer finishes.

My work ranges in size, from unique large scale sculpture to small ornamental pieces for homes and gardens. I hope my sculpture is enjoyed, as well as taking on commissions I also create a limited amount of speculative pieces which are available to purchase from exhibitions and other shows.

LATEST NEWS

"It's not the things that are difficult to make but to put ourselves in a condition to make them".

(Constantin Brancusi)

Recent Acquisitions:

2010 - Kew Gardens Festival of Biodiversity .
2010 - JC Gardens & Climbing Frames.

PAST EVENTS & HAPPENINGS

This website was set up in May 2010 and so we don't yet have any old news.

CURRENT SHOWS

Dorset Art Week 2010 from May 29th until June 13th.
A collection of work in a gallery and courtyard setting.
The Threshing Barn, New Boywood Farm, Mapowder, Dorset.

The Whiteknights Studio Trail on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th June 2010. All venues are open between 11am and 6pm.
Sculpture will be in a garden and courtyard setting.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

2009 Stock Gaylard Oak Fair (Dorset)
2008 Scribes art Market
2008 Stock Gaylard Oak Fair (Dorset)
2002 Dorset Art Week (woolland House)
2002 Vision & the stereophonic circus
2001 Afterbath (Michael Tippett Exhibition Centre)
2000 MART (Bristol)
Degree show (BSUC)
Project Vision (Bath City Centre)
North Wold House Group Show (BSUC)
North Wold House Group Show (BSUC)
Mission Impossible (Bournemouth)

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS & COILLECTIONS

2010 - Large Fungi (J.C. Gardens & Climbing Frames) London.
2009 - Pectoralis Major (Private Collection) Dorset.
2009 - Spread Eagle (Private Collection) Dorset.
2008 - Blade (Sycamore Branch) Public demonstration, Stalbridge, Dorset.
2007 - Site Specific Sculpture (Standing Dead Oak) Bonslea Wood, Dorset.

Ian Gregory - Ceramic Sculptor, Dorset

Dan Dunne - Painter, UK

Dorset Charcoal Company - Suppliers of local hardwood charcoal.
Run by Jim Bettle who's both a friend & colleague.

Wan Ling Tea House - Online shop specialising in delightful, full leaf Chinese and Indian teas.
Run by my old friend James Grayland.

ovo limited - Graphic and Web Design, Dorset.
Thanks to Tom Gregory for creating this website.

Festival of Bryan - Local fund raising festival.