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Dominic Grant has always sketched while busy with a music career that began in the late 1960’s. He is still a successful recording artist and has sold more than three million albums with his wife Julie, who are known together as Grant and Forsyth. Dominic was also the lead singer in the hugely successful seventies boy girl group Guys ‘N’ Dolls.
He started to experiment with clay sculpture of his wife, son and daughter in the early 1980’s. Dominic’s talent for sculpture was soon noticed. He was introduced to a foundry in Druten, Holland to the methods of casting his sculptures in bronze, using the lost wax method. He continues to use this traditional process for all his sculptures which are still cast at the foundry in Holland where he finishes each work with the complicated process of colouring the bronze to give its individual patina which can take up to eight weeks to complete.
From 1970 to 1973, Dominic was greatly inspired when he was living in the beautiful surroundings of Trasteverie,
in the old quarter of Rome. Dominic began to develop a range of figurative bronzes capturing the essence of memories taken from his theatrical background and life experiences. Inspired by his love of movement and expression his work encapsulates the expressive emotion of the body, from a ballet dancer twirling a ribbon to his individual theatrical characters.
In the past few years, Dominic’s sculptures have been exhibited in London, Amsterdam, Marbella, Mayfair, Monte Carlo and Portafino. His recent success has also led to commissions by the London Palladadium for a bust of BRUCE FORSYTH, by Sony for a bust of BARBRA STREISAND and for sports giants O’NEILL for whom he sculpted ‘The Surfer’...
Dominic Grant's works can be found here on our website:
http://www.petleys.co.uk/works.html
He started to experiment with clay sculpture of his wife, son and daughter in the early 1980’s. Dominic’s talent for sculpture was soon noticed. He was introduced to a foundry in Druten, Holland to the methods of casting his sculptures in bronze, using the lost wax method. He continues to use this traditional process for all his sculptures which are still cast at the foundry in Holland where he finishes each work with the complicated process of colouring the bronze to give its individual patina which can take up to eight weeks to complete.
From 1970 to 1973, Dominic was greatly inspired when he was living in the beautiful surroundings of Trasteverie,
in the old quarter of Rome. Dominic began to develop a range of figurative bronzes capturing the essence of memories taken from his theatrical background and life experiences. Inspired by his love of movement and expression his work encapsulates the expressive emotion of the body, from a ballet dancer twirling a ribbon to his individual theatrical characters.
In the past few years, Dominic’s sculptures have been exhibited in London, Amsterdam, Marbella, Mayfair, Monte Carlo and Portafino. His recent success has also led to commissions by the London Palladadium for a bust of BRUCE FORSYTH, by Sony for a bust of BARBRA STREISAND and for sports giants O’NEILL for whom he sculpted ‘The Surfer’...
Dominic Grant's works can be found here on our website:
http://www.petleys.co.uk/works.html
