About the Artist

Tanya Russell has become well known over the last 30 years for her life-like and vibrant animal sculptures. For Tanya, her practice is not only about capturing the animals she sculpts with marks and movement – it is about our relationships with those animals and their welfare. Tanya apprenticed for 7 years with her parents, sculptors Lorne McKean FRBS and Edwin Russell FRBS and after practising as a sculptor for a number of years, she founded The Art Academy in London Bridge, now a degree-validated and thriving art college. She is also the author of ‘Modelling and Sculpting the Figure’.…

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