About Philip Hearsey

After attending Camberwell School of Art in the mid 1960’s Philip Hearsey spent the majority of his career in architecture, interior design and furniture making which provided him with the training and the learning of many practical skills that have proved invaluable.

As a sculptor he is self-taught and specialises in sand-cast bronze, which is very different from the lost-wax technique more commonly used.  Bronze is eternal - yet malleable. He loves the stuff.  The depth of colour is sublimely beautiful.

The linear discipline engrained by an architectural background inevitably informs his sculpture but he is most powerfully driven and inspired by the natural forms and landscape and, most notably, the immensely strong sense of place where he lives and works in Herefordshire, on the edge of England where it is interwoven and blurred with the Welsh borders.  His work is not descriptive -  it is the feelings experienced which he expresses in abstract sculpture.

He does not share much about the background motivation behind his work, which is completely personal.

He chooses names with care and a certain ambiguity – they are not intended to be prescriptive but to leave room for a spectator’s own interpretation and to add their own story. 

When a work leaves his studio it takes on a different life and the collector will convey his or her own relevance and energy to take full ownership and form a new bond with the sculpture.