Recent Wall Pieces and Relief Carvings by Jeremy Turner
17th January - 21st February 2011
Graduating as a sculptor in 1970, I started my woodcarving business with an Enterprise Allowance Scheme grant in 1985. As well as carving dishes and bowls I started doing a lot of relief carving and lettering, and house signs and relief panels soon became an important part of my work.
Relief carving excites me because I can unite picturemaking with the physical deliberateness of carving, and combine colour with the crisp use of light and shadow. The labour of carving demands that designs are concise and that drawing translates into images that are efficiently carveable.
In my personal work I explore themes of human desire and want, conflict and contentment. I bring together shapes of cars, expensive watches, handbags, mobile phones, perfume bottles, lipsticks, and warplanes. I look at the advertisements in glossy magazines that excite our desire and wonder at the posters on the sides of bus shelters.
Public art commissions have kept me busy with relief panels and signage for schools, hospitals and care homes, and signs for villages and towns.Private clients have commissioned house signs, carved bed headboards, and commemorative objects.
Beside my workshop practice I work regularly on projects with schools and community groups I am always open to enquiries from people who want something made that is special and unique.
http://jeremyturnerwoodcarver.isendyouthis.com/
jeremy.turner@btinternet.com