Barbara Hepworth

 Visited Tate Britain on 21st September 2015 to see Sculpture for a Modern World,  a major exhibition of Barbara Hepworth's work which traces her growing international success.

Hepworth was a leading figure of the international art movement in the 1930s and one of the most successful sculptors in the 1950s and 1960s. 

After doing a course in stone carving about four years ago I found I had  a passion for working with sculpture in stone. I had  wanted to see  at  Hepworth's work for quite some time and it was a great pleasure for me to be able to see so many of her sculptures in one place. I was particularly intrigued by her very figurative sculpture of Madonna and Child 1954. She has said: "Working  realistically seems to release one's love for life, humanity and the earth. Working abstractly seems to release one's personality and sharpen the perceptions, so that in the observation of life it is the wholeness or inner intention which moves one so profoundly,"