Emily Young’s sculpture called Blue Purbeck Angel Head, which I saw when it was exhibited in the garden of St. James Church near Piccadilly in September 2017, is made from a rock type known as Purbeck marble which is quarried fairly close to where I live in Dorset. It isn’t really marble at all (that’s a metamorphic rock) but a type of limestone (sedimentary rock) with numerous small fossils, mostly gastropods. It polishes up nicely and from a distance looks like marble.
Very cool and beautiful sculpture.😊 I like that he has not made the head around, that he left it alone in the back of the head.
This is quite cool. Love this! – Jim
Thank you, John. Her sculptures are magnificent with the heads seeming to emerge from the rocks naturally.
Thank you, Jim.