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Felix Dennis Statues – The Garden of Heroes & Villains

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Admin under Charlotte Wright Photography, Warwickshire Photography

Felix Dennis Statues – The Garden of Heroes & Villains

The next project I wanted to share with you are just a few of the hundreds of photographs I have taken of Felix Dennis’ statues, the insane Garden of Heroes & Villains.

This garden was open to the public once a year for the NGS Gardens Scheme when thousands of people descended upon Dorsington and into Felix’s amazing gardens. The gardens surrounding his uses were beautiful, large, but understated, and extremely well kept. Welshman’s garden however was slightly different!

To be up there photographing and wandering around these amazing and huge bronze statues of people, mythological creatures, heroes, villains and stories was astounding. It was so peaceful up there, yet you knew you weren’t alone. There aren’t many places were Winston Churchill stands proudly next to Oscar Wilde or you can go round a corner and be faced with a life size bronze woolly mammoth!

I have been lucky enough to photograph these statues since 2009 and have seen so many arrive. Dürer’s Rhinoceros was a personal high point for me, it is astounding. Also, visiting the lovely sculptor Anita Lafford and being welcomed into her home and studio to see her work and follow the journey of Leonardo Da Vinci from clay to following it through to be cast and fired in an Oswestry foundry was an experience I will never repeat.

I don’t know where the statues will end up, but I absolutely know that I will never get a more detailed, eccentric, attention to detail photographic job again, and if you EVER get a chance to see them, it is an absolute MUST!

www.felixdennis.com

3 thoughts on “Felix Dennis Statues – The Garden of Heroes & Villains”

  1. derek williams says:

    hi i worked on Mammoth at the foundry in Wales such a brilliant 2 weeks I have a picture of the Mammoth in latex prior to casting if you’d like it I’ll send it and some more of casting process including pouring etc a video also contact me if you’d like dw

  2. John Lovesey says:

    More info re subjects of sculptures is desirable – something like a catalogue raisonee? Anything in pipeline?

    1. Admin says:

      Hi John, Felix had books published with all of the sculptures in, it may be worth looking at them if you want to see more!

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