New Work

In March 2020 with the looming lockdown, Sasha decided to focus solely on carving stone. She began creating small sculptures using offcuts of Portland stone she had acquired a couple of months previously. Later in 2020 Sasha started a new journey working with different stones after finding a local source that sold various Alabaster, Soapstone and Marble.

These new stones have such different qualities, varying hardness, colour and texture. Each carving is a new discovery and the irregular shapes of these stones have dictated a much freer approach. Free flow carving is exciting and spontaneous and in many ways connects the sculptor to the material in far more depth as the forms appear and are shaped rather than what can be a methodical approach after drawing, making Maquettes and carving a replica in stone from a model.

These recent sculptures have taken a different direction and are a personal reflection on various current issues involving Politics, the Environment and the Wildlife Trade.

Some people don’t like their art political. But art is life and life is political. At a point in our history like this a collision is unavoidable.

The common thread running through these three pieces is the pandemic. It’s dominated all our lives since the beginning 2020, mine included, and for it not to have found its way into my work would have been to pretend that the world outside my door didn’t exist.

Sculptures are for sale unless indicated otherwise.

Photographs by Louise Roberts and Sasha Constable