The Sculpture Park - Art, Design and A Taste of Summer at Blenheim Palace

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The Sculpture Park

Visit the Sculpture Park area where you can see four highly skilled and talented sculptors working and even have a go yourself. Our individually selected sculptors each bring a unique style to create a collection that includes something for everyone. Also on display, a series of stainless steel garden sculptures that will delight young and old.

Demonstrating at the Show

Simon Keeley

Simon Keeley trained as a Stone Mason at York College and later worked as a Stone Mason for Bowman and Sons in Stamford Lincolnshire. He went on to train as a Stone Carver at the London City and Guilds Art School. Over the years he has addressed contemporary forms and issues with particular reference to Art in Architecture which he studied at MA level at the University of East London.

His range of skills as a stone carver involves an extensive knowledge of stone, drawing nature, ornament and the human figure and he has undertaken several prestigious commissions. He has developed a passion for teaching at his ‘summer studio’, at the Art Academy in London and West Dean College in Sussex.

Simon will be demonstrating his skills at the show and sharing his enthusiasm for stone carving by giving visitors an opportunity to try the craft for themselves.

Nikki Taylor

Nikki succumbed to sculpture full time in 1999, after fulfilling careers in advertising and design, combined with family life. She did her foundation at Reigate School of Art, followed by a BA (Hons) at Wimbledon, graduating in 2003. She studied under Allan Sly, one of the country's foremost figurative sculptors, specialising in life sculpture, working from the nude - male and female.

‘My passion is for the human body and for capturing the intangible sense of life, mood and energy that solid flesh conveys’.

Nikki will be demonstrating how she ‘sculpts in the air’ her unique and striking full-size wire mesh figures, at the show.

Joel Walker

Joel Walker specialises in portraits of animals and people as well as the design and installation of water features and other sculpture installations for public and private venues.

Examples of Joel's work have been on exhibition overseas, in London, the Eastern Counties, the North of England, and near her old home ground of the Welsh Border.

"It is a delight and a great privilege to be able to sculpt and be involved in the design and making of works of Art that can bring so much pleasure to people" The Sculptress JOEL

Exterior Steel Garden Sculpture on Display

Clare Tupman

Clare Tupman, mother of 4, attended the Ruskin school of Fine Art in Oxford. Clare is a ranged artist who has worked with many forms of media though sculpting has always been her greatest passion.

Clare learned to weld and has developed her own style of sculpting. She creates huge steel frameworks then cuts and welds small metal shards from sheets of stainless steel, binding them to form the contours and muscle structures of animals and figures. The final results are huge, beautiful structures of shimmering steel that seem to have a life of their own.

Clare's personal style of sculpting has won her the AA award for Best Sculpture at the Hackwood Art Festival for her critically acclaimed Dolphin Fountain and she was recently commissioned to create a public sculpture for Somerset County Council that stands in Yeovil, Somerset.