CAROL SINCLAIR SCULPTOR AT HILDERSHAM

Copper Leaf

Carol Sinclair is celebrated internationally - yet she is so much an artist of England. Who else takes materials right from our earth, our soil our seashores and turns it to gold?  Everyone thinks they can do it of course. How often have you turned up a shell or a shard on a scrappy stretch of strand in Suffolk – and imagined it might be Kettle’s Yard’s next acquisition - only to find it annoyingly devoid of meaning in a corner months later? The objets trouvés fad has a lot to answer for. Carol Sinclair soars high above that detectorist tendency. She has so much artistic poise, she is crowded with confidence, balanced in an imagination of genius between the last knockings of the natural world – materials’ destiny - and the sublime skill of creation.

It is not easy work.  Tall slim and delicately formed Carol is  nevertheless a tough hands- on workwoman ready to grapple with the quasi dangerous tasks involved in smelting, welding and concrete casting. She is not mad though. She leaves large scale hefting to fit lads whose specialty is heavy lifting, but she is never far from her connection with her spikey elemental material.

Beachcomber extraordinaire, for years Carol Sinclair has walked a lonely path on the postindustrial shoreline of the North East, or trodden a snarky route around once vital sites of material manufacture.  The results are stunning. If you want to re-vitalize your interior in the most dazzling way possible, Carol’s visionary sculptures can create more sense of organic connectedness, more realistic link with nature than any other art form.

And she’s not finished with your living room. In fact gardens, the often rather bourgeois extension of home – are her special target. Rise delicate copper-burnished reeds from your pond, or surprise with sturdy bog oak riven to perfection . Carol Sinclair’s work stems from the ultra modernist home in Hildersham  she shares with designer husband Iain, ; Willow House where the workshop seldom ceases  production Here she is now exhibiting  extended by special acclaim. A visit is a heavenly experience. A purchase makes it last forever.

Garden art

Amazing found oak rises from millennial long obscurity in Carole Sinclair’s work

Some of Carol Sinclair Tree- related Sculpture continues at GALLERY ABOVE 94 High Street,.LINTON until 31st July 2021. It forms part of a Tree theme in the Cambridge Open Studios project.. Carol’s own studio at Willow House HIldersham will be open for the second and third weekends of the Cambridge Open Studios.

GALLERY ABOVE in Linton will also show some fascinating ‘tree’ art from a brilliant range of artists in the area .