Woodland Spirit
The sculptor of this piece, Woodland Spirit, is the famed artist Anthony Aloysius St John
Hancock. Situated in Beckenham Park amid a boscage of evergreen and deciduous
trees this woodland spirit is admired by art lovers and the general public. A
short film of Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock’s almost complete oeuvre can be
viewed at https://vimeo.com/52396543
Mr Hancock, of 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, achieved
fame in the 1960’s for his acting career but at the time his painting and
sculpture was less well appreciated. Since the exhibition at The Foundry, https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/theLIP/dora-hancock.html
, a stone’s throw from fashionable Hoxton Square, his status in the artworld
has steadily risen with many young artists now being compared to the indomitable
Mr Hancock.
Below, a still from the the documentary, The Rebel, directed by Robert
Day with script by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, which charts Hancock’s life as a clerk
in a London office and his decision to move to Paris to dedicate himself to his
art.
The Artist sculpting Aphrodite at the Waterhole,
was Woodland Spirit a companion piece?
was Woodland Spirit a companion piece?
