Michael Talbot is a British sculptor whose practice is rooted in a sustained engagement with the human form — its capacity for gesture, balance, and the communication of feeling through purely physical means. "Sculpture for me," he has said, "is an attempt to show and illuminate a chosen moment in time. I like to give my sculptures choreography of form, tension and balance, to lead the eye and capture a moment in time."
His bronzes are produced using the lost wax method — one of the oldest casting techniques in human history, used for sculpture since ancient Egypt and Greece, and still the most precise method available for capturing the subtlety of a modelled surface in metal. Talbot retains complete control over every stage of the process: the original clay model, the casting, and the final patination, which is unique to each piece and gives the bronze its specific warmth and depth of tone.
His figurative works — Ayanna, Amara, Infinite Love, Lasting Love — explore the human figure in states of grace, connection, and emotional presence. His most recent series focuses on hands: pairs of elegant hands coming together to form subtle messages of love, the gesture reduced to its essential elements and then rendered in a material whose permanence gives it the weight the subject deserves.
The choice of bronze is never arbitrary in Talbot's practice. It is the material that lasts — that patinates and changes over time, that outlasts almost everything else in a domestic interior, that carries its subject matter into whatever future it inhabits. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, Windsor, and London.
