Tree Top Leopard !!
Shot taken with Saturday Self Challenge in mind - 20/08/2022 ---- The Top .
It has been a very muddled week and I took this as a shot of something atop an the old tree , been in two minds about posting it but having put a lot of time into the background info and time has raced past now , I shall post and hope for the best .
If you go to Leatherhead railway station and look out from the station from the up line side you will see this grand sculpture of an old gnarled tree with an about to pounce leopard . The complete view can be seen in the first comment box .
This is a shot I have been thinking about for a long time now and with the SSC challenge of some thing at the top or looking down from above - I took this from a point to show off the detail and at the same time keeping it as level as I could .
Jonathan Kenworthy (b.1943) is the sculptor of this and other
wildlife in action who was born in Westmorland. He attended the Royal Academy Schools from 1961, also studying anatomy at the Royal Veterinary College. Kenworthy used a Schools Gold Medal Travelling Scholarship to make an initial visit to Africa. Further annual trips there followed to further his knowledge of the continent’s wildlife. In 1977 he visited Nepal and Afghanistan. Kenworthy early on began to take part in group and solo shows, including the RA Summer Exhibition. His notable sculptures included a memorial for the writer Ernest Hemingway’s burial place in Ketchum, Idaho, America; and The Leopard, 1985, commissioned by the property developer Wates for 20 Cannon Street. It is depicted and described in Philip Ward-Jackson’s Public Sculpture of the City of London.
In 1993, Kenworthy showed a similar piece in the RBS Chelsea Harbour show Sculpture 93.
To the best of my knowledge it was in 2009 that the statue was relocated to the Wates offices in Leatherhead opposite the railway station where it is now .
Also in the first comment box is another approach to the challenge involving bottle tops .
And now " Animal " by Def Leppard
Tree Top Leopard !!
Shot taken with Saturday Self Challenge in mind - 20/08/2022 ---- The Top .
It has been a very muddled week and I took this as a shot of something atop an the old tree , been in two minds about posting it but having put a lot of time into the background info and time has raced past now , I shall post and hope for the best .
If you go to Leatherhead railway station and look out from the station from the up line side you will see this grand sculpture of an old gnarled tree with an about to pounce leopard . The complete view can be seen in the first comment box .
This is a shot I have been thinking about for a long time now and with the SSC challenge of some thing at the top or looking down from above - I took this from a point to show off the detail and at the same time keeping it as level as I could .
Jonathan Kenworthy (b.1943) is the sculptor of this and other
wildlife in action who was born in Westmorland. He attended the Royal Academy Schools from 1961, also studying anatomy at the Royal Veterinary College. Kenworthy used a Schools Gold Medal Travelling Scholarship to make an initial visit to Africa. Further annual trips there followed to further his knowledge of the continent’s wildlife. In 1977 he visited Nepal and Afghanistan. Kenworthy early on began to take part in group and solo shows, including the RA Summer Exhibition. His notable sculptures included a memorial for the writer Ernest Hemingway’s burial place in Ketchum, Idaho, America; and The Leopard, 1985, commissioned by the property developer Wates for 20 Cannon Street. It is depicted and described in Philip Ward-Jackson’s Public Sculpture of the City of London.
In 1993, Kenworthy showed a similar piece in the RBS Chelsea Harbour show Sculpture 93.
To the best of my knowledge it was in 2009 that the statue was relocated to the Wates offices in Leatherhead opposite the railway station where it is now .
Also in the first comment box is another approach to the challenge involving bottle tops .
And now " Animal " by Def Leppard