ABOVE Study for Sculpture
Denis Mitchell
From the late 1940’s, sculptor Denis Mitchell was central to the St. Ives modernist artists. Renowned for his polished , dynamic bronzes, he evolved a visual language that was inspired by his intimate knowledge of working in and on the landscape.
He was chief assistant to Barbara Hepworth between 1949 and 1959.He initially worked with wood, slate and stone, but eventually found his own forms in sand-cast bronze. His implicit understandingof the balance of line and form created by the interplay of light and surface imbues Mitchell’s tall abstractsculptures with a unique vitality.