by Simon Connett | Sep 4, 2026 | Sculpture
I’ve been thinking about this journey for a while now. The way home. That time spent between work and the home you live in. When I was a kid, it was a walk from the bus stop back to the house that I grew up in with my family. I can remember it now… I come out of the...
by Simon Connett | Sep 9, 2025 | Sculpture
Each year the swallows return to the farm. They nest in the old milking parlour, sometimes flying into the forge looking for new places to set up home. On late summer evenings, they gather in the lane above the farm, cork screwing and skimming over the tarmac, hunting...
by Simon Connett | May 28, 2025 | Sculpture
Sometimes a thing happens that triggers an emotional response. It could be a glimpse of something beautiful or the wish to express an experience or feeling. As an artist that works in metal I will inevitably begin to think of how I can represent that response through...
by Simon Connett | Jul 22, 2024 | Sculpture
I came up with this one several months ago. The design was okayed by the client and the deposit paid late last year. At time of writing this post, the frame of the gate sits on my workbench. The internal parts are all drawn out in chalk. Everything is ready for me to...
by Simon Connett | Feb 7, 2024 | Sculpture
My workshop is on an old dairy farm. It’s no longer a working farm. The sheds are disused and the milking parlour is full of old unnamed pieces of rusty machinery and sings with the drips and flow of water whenever it rains.I was walking into the parlour to wash my...
