Fern by Jeanne Argent
Jeanne’s favourite sculpture was the very first piece she made for RHS Wisley: a huge fern sculpture which stood 10ft high and made in three sections which had to be stacked.
“I never saw it all stacked together until it got to Wisley because my garage roof, where I was working at the time, was too low. I had to work on the bottom and the middle, then put the middle on the floor then put the top on top of that. I never knew whether it worked until I got there.”
When asked which artist inspires her, Jeanne had no hesitation in naming the Basque artist, Eduardo Chillida, who was employed in a shipyard. Jeanne says, “He worked with steel, great big pieces of bent steel – amazing. There is a piece in San Sebastian on the coast of Spain, “Combs of the Wind”, which sticks out to the sea and the waves crash over it.”
Flood Stitched Collage by Jeanne Argent
El Peine del los Viento by Eduardo Chillida
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