"PILE OF JUNK REBORN AS ART"

-MR. RICHARD FIELD-



  A wild boar's skull, some plastic supermarket bags and a dirty old towel 

positioned upon a heap of gnarled wood and rusted metal pipes. For ordinary eyes 

it looks like just a pile of useless junk, but this is the scene in the atelier 

of the British sculptor, Richard Field, who has been in Japan for 10 years.

  He gets ideas for his clay sculpture compositions by arranging and sketching 

these piles of junk from many different angles as they move around on turntables. 

However, when the viewer glances at the sketches he will be surprised by the 

sculptor's unusual interpretation of the forms. Pen and pencil merge in abstract 

relationships. They also seem to reveal his study of the three artists whose works 

he admires Cezanne, Rodin and Kandinsky.

  After clarifying his ideas through sketching, in order to visualize the intended 

form of the sculpture, he begins to build up clay on a separate turntable, while still 

contemplating the pile of junk.  A plaster mould is made of the completed clay model 

and from this a fiberglass and resin cast is taken, which is the finished sculpture. 

  One of his recent works, "Lunging Pivotal Triangle" won the Mayor's Prize in 

this summer's Himeji City Art Museum's Annual Art Competition.