WEATHERED BEAUTY
Quartet
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By incorporating the teachings of Zen Buddhism and the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi Sabi into her latest collection, Carolyn Savidge’s homage to the thousands of trees lost to Storm Goretti across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in January 2026 makes visible her fascination with decay, imperfection and transience.
These wax, clay and plaster sculptures also become metaphors for a diasporic existence – of living in-between something or somewhere else, shaped by nature’s force and place of origin.
Each work is a tribute, comprising the sublime immutability of time as it merges with roots and the soil, natural forms emerging from non-familiar conceptual frameworks, and installations connecting Mother Earth with the choreographies of Martha Graham.
Grace in her own skin
(After Schiaparelli couture of the body in nature)
Cast in plaster, dried plant material
H 43cm x W 53cm x D 22cm
Carolyn Savidge 2026.
Storm deny the reality
(Mothering the sacred bones; the fullness of the feminine)
Bronze resin patinated with Tiffany Green, Wishbones cast in resin Dolomite mix, Wheelbarrow base from the sea
H 43cm x W 55cm x D 20cm
H 79cm x W 70cm x D 32cm (with Wheelbarrow base)
Carolyn Savidge 2026.
Don’t look back into the abyss beyond good and evil
(The strength and heart of the tree clothed in flowers in a Medusa twist)
Aphorism F. Nietzsche 1886
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss the abyss gazes into you”
Cast in plaster, dried plant material
H 33cm x W 29cm x D 180cm
Carolyn Savidge 2026.
Ask the question (St Francis, Bodhi we take nothing with us only what you have given)
Cast in plaster, dried plant material, Hand-Carved St. Francis of Assisi Devotional Statue, Mantilla lace offering
H 18cm x W 23cm x D 49cm
Carolyn Savidge 2026.