Anthony’s Wood Carvings
Here is a brief summary of Anthony’s work competed since leaving Bath academy in 1983.
Carving figures in wood until his early 30’s. portrait of the art critic.
Peter Fuller, life size, in giant red wood.
Carving naturalistic bunches of flowers.
Large oak flowers
Then over a few years these became reduced into simplified and rhythmic and repetitive forms.
The sculptures became too thin to carve in wood, I made a furnace for bronze casting and spent several years making linier rhythmic forms in bronze and aluminium which were more about ‘light’ than about volume and solid form.
Meditation and sculpture
In my mid-forties, I took up meditation and after a year, the ‘need’ to make sculpture was no longer there within me, so, I stopped for the next 13 years.
In my late 50’s, I started carving in box wood, small figurative plaques in relief retracing my path through meditation and about meditation.
About meditation
We experience the journey of the soul to the liberation from the cycle of birth, death and re-birth. Premise – the many forms of life originate from the energy consciousness, exists in the cycle of birth, death and re-birth and after a final birth returns to consciousness as the energy of consciousness. In meditation we return to our ‘old home’ – consciousness.
In the 2nd series, the ‘self’, rather than having a body is represented as energy in energy or as energy transforming into energy in the atmosphere of energy. At some point I would like to return to these carvings and develop them further.
The Grotto
Since 2021, with the help of my son Lewis and my neighbour Stan, I have built a large room in the garden and the interior is carved in oak, some are 3D pieces, but most, mainly in relief, the designs are based on rock formations found in caves and on the local Pembrokeshire coast and the carvings are often determined by the unusual natural shapes of the oak trunks. The room also includes a carved bench (a first lock down project) and views across the garden.
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