Description
Ophelia Gordon Bell was born in London in 1915 but spent much of her childhood in the Lake District. In her mid teens Ophelia was well on the way to becoming an accomplished artist in her own right, studying at Regent Street Polytechnic Sculpture School in London where she worked with stone, wood, metal, clay and plaster. By the age of 23 Ophelia had already exhibited her work at the Royal Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the Society of Portrait Sculptors.
In her later years Ophelia turned her attentions to the infinitely more pastoral and rural scenes that surrounded her: scenes that inspired her to craft her highly sought after sculptural studies of local shepherds with their sheep and farmers with their dogs.
In this case, Ophelia was struck by the memory of a very briefly glimpsed shepherd on an old white pony, that she had seen coming down Far Easedale in the snow one Easter, gathering in his lambs. When Ophelia showed it to Ernie Tyson, who had inspired the piece, he appraised it silently for several long minutes, before saying " Aye, yon horse is picking its way home, up t'home, over rough ways". Ophelia felt very much that Ernie was not thinking of art or statuary at all, but of his old pony as he knew it should be.
Currently on edition 11 of 12.
Cast in bronze.
Length 72cm (28 inches) x Height 80cm (32 inches).
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