#SpringBack
#SpringBack is a new series of birdscapes, bringing back to you the sounds of Spring 2020, shared each and every day of the UK’s second lockdown. There’s nothing like birdsong to soothe the soul, so…
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Launched: Art Junction
We’re very excited to announce that our Art Junction online art school, developed specially for you, is now officially open, on the Patreon creative platform. Join our creative community and reinvigorate your creative practice. So…
Hazel’s Autumn Lecture on video now
I am delighted to be giving the online Autumn Lecture for the Surrey Sculpture Society (open to all), at 7pm on Tuesday 6 October 2020. A significant part of my artistic life is about telling…
BBC Radio 3: Sounds of the Earth
‘Sounds of the Earth’ featured my dawn chorus soundscape this week. If you’re a classical music lover like me, you’ll know Martin Handley’s BBC Radio 3 breakfast show, and its Sunday morning Sounds of the…
Sculpture Vulture Podcast interview
If you love sculpture, then this is for you. What Lucy Branch doesn’t know about bronze, is not worth knowing. It was a real privilege and pleasure to be interviewed by Lucy, for her new…
METRO: What do sculptors think?
Interviewing me for a METRO article, Renaka Odendra posed some challenging questions. ‘What do the sculptors of today think about sculpting real figures and the responsibility they hold as artists?’ was her overarching question. Below…
Sir Nigel Gresley Sir Nigel Gresley
King’s Cross Station, London The commission Sir Nigel Gresley, is the eminent railway engineer (1876-1941), designer of the record-breaking steam locomotives, Flying Scotsman and Mallard. The 7ft 4in bronze was unveiled to an enthusiastic crowd…
The Nightingale Diaries
Do you also need some birdsong therapy? These new diary entries are the soundtracks to my post-studio evening walks, that feed my obsession with birdsong, and the newly arrived nightingale in particular. Expect birdsong,…
The ecstasy of dance
As a life-long dance-lover, it’s no surprise that I have sought collaborations with dancers. But it’s more than that. I feel a strong connection between sculpture and dance. Sculpting, as with dance, is visceral, it’s…
The agony of dance
I have been experimenting. Bronze Age Sculpture Casting Foundry let me loose in the wax room. This new sculptural work-in-progress – Agony and Ecstasy – exudes the joy of dance yet the pain of pushing…
Emmeline portrait supports Manchester charities
Two Manchester-based rights charities are sharing in the proceeds from this new life-size bronze portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst. As a token of my appreciation, ten percent of the sales price is split between Breakthrough UK…
Hazel featured in AS News
Earlier this year Sally Dickinson visited my studio to interview me about what it’s like to be a sculptor with Axial Spondyloarthritis (AS for short). She is from the National Society (NASS). Here’s her article…