Anthony Bryant Oak Vessel Sculptural Turned Wood Bowl Freeform 1994 Signed UK

Description

ITEM:  Anthony Bryant Turned Wood Bowl
CREATOR: Anthony Bryant (British)
DETAILS: An exquisite work in wood by the British artist; a freeform conical featherweight vessel in brown oak, inclusive of natural knots and holes, finished with an undulating angled edge.  Balanced on a narrow base, an elegant and dramatic vessel.
PERIOD: Late 20th century
PLACE OF ORIGIN: United Kingdom
DATE OF MANUFACTURE: 1994
MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Oak wood
MARKS: Signed on base "Anthony Bryant, oak, 1994"
CONDITION:
Nearly invisible hairline repair close to rim (see picture #6, follow pencil point)
DIMENSIONS: 11" high, 14" wide
BIOGRAPHY:
From The Bentley Gallery, Phoenix
Anthony Bryant began woodturning in 1973 after discovering an old 19th Century treadle lathe in his father's workshop. He was immediately fascinated by the woodturning process, especially the bowl form, and soon progressed to a motorized lathe where he spent several years before leaving full-time education, developing and refining bowl-turning techniques.
In 1978 he began a career in commercial banking which, although good in many respects, prevented him from spending the same amount of time improving skills and developing ideas. He soon realized it was essential for him to work alongside a professional wood turner, and so during all his spare time and holidays he teamed up with a highly respected and skilled industrial wood turner, producing specialist parts for cathedral and church organs. Such work involves the use of ivory and other precious timbers and is to be found in amongst others, St. Paul's Cathedral, Sidney Opera House and Westminster Abbey. This exposure to skills and general work discipline, quite different to that required for bowl-turning, proved invaluable in demanding greater commitment and attention to his work.
As the demand for his work increased he was able to resign from the bank in 1982 and immediately concentrate on producing work of a highly unique and individual nature, experimenting with the shape, scale and volume of the vessel form.
Using unseasoned timber he produces large, expansive bowls which, while being rotated in the lathe, fling out all the sap within the wood cells causing the cellular structure of the bowl to contract and move out of perfect symmetry into a more individual and exciting shape. This movement is only possible when the thickness of the bowl is 1/8" or less; otherwise the stresses within the wood will result in splitting. This ability to move makes such work particularly suitable for areas of high humidity or heat, the bowl being so thin as to be able to flex just enough to prevent splitting.
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