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Sculpture for sale; portrait commissions

This site is an archive but you can see works available for sale through a search of ‘complete works’ for ‘available’. Smaller works are very reasonable – some studies less than £200. Please enquire about portrait commissions. Whilst the complex and expensive process of casting copies in bronze means such works may cost £5-10,000, a […]

early works to Potteries Museum Stoke-on-Trent – Apr ’26

Four works have gone to the permanent collection of the Potteries Museum. These were worked in Tunstall at the Frink School of Sculpture and reference subjects in the surroundings landscapes of The Roaches and Ramshaw Rocks.

Ramtorso unique cast goes to Russell-Cotes Museum and Art Gallery

An early carving (2002) in polystyrene, sandcast in Stoke-on-Trent and polished as a unique solid aluminium work. Now in permanent collection of the Bournemouth museum.

A posthumous head of Fanny Cornforth, pre-Raphaelite muse

see @fannycornforthsculpture instagram here. After discussing a decade ago, it felt right just to get on with this; following the outline used successfully by the capabilitybrownsculpture.wordpress.com project – a forensic build using documentary evidence from her lifetime.

WINCHESTER EXHIBITION APRIL-JUNE 2025

The Winchester exhibition involves 30 artists responding to the length of the South Downs Way. There is a single Edgar marble relief present, but the exhibition is on April-July – a heads up should you be passing. Publicity summary for the event: Every Step of the Way | The Arc

portrait of Sir John Harvey-Jones (2004) to Bradford University collection

See the ArtUK database for the works in public collection.

2023 – @thejonedgar Instagram

After abandonment of all social media during lockdown and appreciating the removal of feeling it is running ones life, I’ve re-instituted Instagram as an image archive and for easier direct contact.

2023 – portraiture classes July 2nd and Sept 15/16th

contact for more details; at West Dean College in the South Downs National Park

2022/3 – Art Society Heads Up! project

90 children in Y5 and 6; three schools. Developing the Bury project of 2021 further and deeper with schools in West Sussex. Two schools completed the sessions (individual heads and a communal lifesize head worked on by all pupils) in Autumn ’22 and one goes in Spring ’23.

2021 – new public work starting, South Downs National Park

See the artist’s journal here: https://lordspiece.wordpress.com

2021 – Communal Head project

Bury School West Sussex funded by Young Arts charity intro assembly + 2 mornings with Y5/6 students working from publically-known sitter; communally-rendered life-sized head in clay whilst children were also working on their own individual smaller heads. Terracotta head will be presented back to school once hollowed, fired and mounted.

2020 – teaching programmed

Observational courses at West Dean – 1 day (hands and feet) at end of October and 3 day portraiture in the New Year.

2019 – ‘Fluvius’ public sculpture at Horsham

The archived diary of the creation of the work carved on site over a calendar year and involving the local community throughout: https://horshamsculpture.wordpress.com

Commission for The Cart Shed charity

A sculpture to respond to the charity which uses woodlands as a salve to the rigours of life: see http://cartshedsculpture.wordpress.com

Out of Nature October 2017 exhibition Herefordshire

see www.outofnature.org.uk – in residency 1-10 Oct

The naming of the sculpture on the South Downs at Slindon

The sculpture at Slindon will be unveiled on 17th February 2016 at noon. The National Trust’s Rise of Northwood – the replanting of the majority of a historic woodland lost in the first and second world wars – was made possible by a bequest from John Springthorpe Hunt, who loved the South Downs. An unplanned […]