Philippine Sowerby
Philippine makes wood sculpture that is, increasingly, abstract and expressive of emotional and spiritual concerns.
Following a career path including engineering and supporting people with learning difficulties, she has, in developing craft skills, found fulfilment in releasing the creative potential in this readily-available material. She seeks to reveal wood’s natural structure, texture and colour in balance with her interventions. With this aim in mind her process and design often evolve as the work progresses.
For Philippine, sculpture has an equivalence to poetry, expressing ideas and feelings which touch her while leaving enough for the viewer to interpret. Her current concerns are strength and power against fragility and vulnerability and these dichotomies may be reflected in contrasting physical characteristics. A hollow work, for example, may appear to be strong but is, in fact, wafer thin with silver-staple repairs acknowledging its fragility.
Philippine works in small and large scale, suitable for domestic settings and public places.
Member of The Welsh Group
Member of Sculpture Cymru
Member of The Usk Valley Co-operative
