elisabeth frink - Artist

Sculptor and artist

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Elisabeth Frink’s work is far more familiar than you think. I can recall a day some 10 years or so ago when working in London I had met a college in Piccadilly and having a coffee became aware of the bronze of a horse by Frink which has, in recent times moved into Bond Street . I then had cause to go to the Old Bailey in the city and while having another coffee in Paternoster Square, sat looking at another Elisabeth Frink of sheep and when I later took friends to the theatre in Harlow town parking my car noticed her wild boar …………was she stalking me? Her work is exceptional in my eyes and her dogs and horses have their own authenticity, but the images of a single naked male figure, standing, walking or running, say something about endurance, vulnerability and essential human nature that haunts the memory.
Her earliest drawings, even before she went to Chelsea School of Art ( a place she returned as a teacher) in 1949, were powerful but grim in tone: wounded birds, apocalyptic horses and riders, falling men. Frink grew up in the Suffolk countryside, close to animals and birds, Frink’s sculptures of living creatures are by no means gloomy or painful.

Elisabeth Frink was married three times and her work is held in all of the major public galleries and private collections .