Ruwenzori Sculpture

Generously donated by Geoffrey Dashwood.

Born in Hampshire in 1947 Geoffrey Dashwood has spent his working life in the New Forest. He has exhibited widely and successfully throughout the UK and internationally and was the first living artist to be accorded a retrospective exhibition at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire, in 1991.

The strength of Dashwood’s sculpture comes from his intimate knowledge of wildlife; his clean graphic lines describe the form with an occasional accent of feather, claw or beak together summing up a bird species. His economical sculptural language treads successfully the thin line between abstraction and realism to produce images which truly express the essence of a bird.