Born in Hampshire, in 1954 Wendy Earle has been making sculpture all her life.
She moved to Ceredigion in 1983 to join her husband, the writer and academic, Maurice Keens-Soper. Together they looked after their thirty acres of woodland, streams and meadows. Since his death in 2018 she has continued to plant trees to encourage even greater diversity of habitat and wildlife.
Her recent sculptures are made in and for the valley and provide environments for use by birds, plants, insects and animals. They include bat boxes, insect palaces, bird roosts and nectar-rich planting. She uses mostly natural materials such as stone, wood, water and earth.
Wendy Earle’s work displays a physical presence, a sense of touch and a hand- made quality that comes from developing such a close and responsive relationship with the land.
In contrast with her early professional life when Wendy exhibited widely and had many solo exhibitions, she now exhibits almost exclusively with The Welsh Group. Her ‘sculptor’s drawings’ are appropriate for showing on a gallery wall.
She employs ice and fire and elements such as iron and gold to give the works a textured haptic quality.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Hounslow Civic Centre
Women's Art Collection, New Hall, University of Cambridge
CADW Kidwelly Castle
AWARDS
Greater London Arts Association Award 1979
Crafts Council Award 1983
Visual Arts Project Fund, Arts Council of Wales 1996
Creative Wales Award 2004
POSITIONS HELD
Council member of Cwaith Cymru/Artwork Wales 1992-1997
Member of The Royal British Society of Sculptors
Elected Member of 'The Welsh Group' 2007