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She knew everything about horses,Īnd had the ability to sculpt them with both broad confidence and, at the same time, exacting precision. Horses roll over and kick in the grass…or they lie down at ease, their legs folded under them…This is Frink at her most relaxed. While for Edward Lucie-Smith, the semi-wild horses of the Camargue, ‘whose resemblance to those in the cave paintings at Lascaux has often been remarked, made an indelible imprint on her imagination.’Ī major theme throughout her career, Frink’s horses of the 1980s are represented ‘much more quietly, as themselves. The artist’s biographer, Stephen Gardiner, suggests the sight of Verrocchio’s equestrian statue of Colleoni and the Roman horses of St Mark’s on a post-war trip to Italy, set Frink on her chosen path. For Frink, horses represented ‘a multiplicity of meanings – masculine and feminine sexuality, wildness, unusual sensitivity and freedom from mental and physical constraint’. She rode every other day in the fields around her Dorset home, Woolland,Įxperiencing the physicality of horses immersed in the English countryside. Throughout her career Elisabeth Frink ‘searched for what it feels like to be, fully, both a human and an animal being, and asked herself repeatedly and unflinchingly about the true nature of life in the face of death.’ Frink’s affinity with nature as a subject and passion for horses in particular stemmed from a rural childhood during which she learnt to ride from a young age and continued into her later years.

London, Beaux Arts, Frink, 7th June – 8th July 2006 (another cast)Īnnette Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries in association with the Frink Estate and Beaux Arts, London, 2013, FCR 328, p.163 (another cast illus.) Private collection, UK, acquired from the above Signed and numbered underneath: Frink 10/10īronze with a brown patina: 7 5/8 x 16 ¾ x 7 7/8 in / 19.4 x 42.5 x 20 cmĬonceived circa 1984 and cast by Ken Cook in 1985 in a numbered edition of 10 Thurlow, Suffolk 1930 - 1993 Woolland, Dorset