Robin Connelly

Description

Oak is a hard wood, possibly not the easiest to carve, and to carve a hollow within an external skin which is penetrated by precisely carved spiralling lines is even more demanding. An additional complication for Connelly was to create and maintain the volume and shape of the entire form, itself a spiral, whilst working through all the other complexities. Spiral, however, is not an academic exercise. The deceptive simplicity of the structure belies its complexity, and the harder one looks, the more intricate it appears to be.