Handcrafted Art Medals
Inspirational and thought provoking
Art Medals are small Bronze or Silver sculptures that are created to fit into your hands comfortably.
Each side will tell a story with the edge detail being part of the narrative.
Medal making starts with the imagination, an inspirational idea creating a story that can seen and touched in the palms of your hands.
Melting and carving wax, moulding, casting, grinding, burnishing, polishing & colour or patina added to achieve the desired effect – until finally the idea comes to fruition
My art medals are individually hand carved in wax before being cast in solid recycled bronze or silver using the lost wax process.
They are all strictly limited editions or one off pieces…..
View to a Krill
It is a British Art Medal Society Thomas Fattorini prize award winning medal. It was part of the Student Medal Competition in 2020, with a theme of endangered Red List species.
It depicts the Blue Whale on one side with the obverse showing it’s prey the Krill. The ‘view’ is a hole which runs through the medal from one creatures eye to the other. Both have been hunted by man almost to extinction. Ironically global warming is now endangering the blooms of Krill that the Whale and many other creatures feed on in the food chain within the ocean.
Number 1 of this edition was acquired by The Royal Institute of Cornwall in 2021 and has been added to their Contemporary Art Medal collection. It is housed at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro, Cornwall, UK and was also in a spotlight display at the Museum in 2021.
The edition is limited to 25 and are available for purchase by contacting Lesley
Dark Continent
The theme was ‘Black Art Matters’. It depicts the Benin ivory mask of Queen Mother Idia overlaid on a silhouette of Africa on one side and a depiction of Lina Iris Viktor, a British Libyan artist on the other, with the edge being traditional African art. In the days of mask wearing, it seemed appropriate that Lina Iris Viktor examines the connotations of the colour black in her artwork by painting her face with a black mask, as part of her incredible collections.
The medal was entered into the British Art Medal Society 2021 Student Competition where it was shortlisted.
This medal has since been exhibited at Makers Wales, in Cardiff as part of a large Student Art Medal exhibition helping to inspire and inform people about contemporary art medals.
This unique medal is now in a private collection.
The Hand Medal Project
This was an international initiative in conjunction with individual jewellers all over the World during 2020.
It involved creating and donating small ex votos, or medals, in the shape of hands hanging from a ribbon, to be given as a gift to the amazing healthcare workers who individually gave so much support to people during the pandemic.
The medals are not about the maker, but about the receiver. They are all made of identical size and shape and then stamped with a specific number allotted to each maker. If the receiver desires they can identify the maker of their personal medal using that number.
My offering of 5 medals were all hand crafted from Pewter and my personal makers number is 779.
My medals were issued to National Health Service workers somewhere in England.
See more details at:- www.handmedalproject.com
I will always be grateful to all staff in the NHS – thank you x