Dominic Welch carves stone into forms that feel grown, not made. Smooth, fluid and abstract, they evoke the image of seeds, pods and embryos, the quiet geometry that runs through the natural world. There is a stillness to them that makes you want to run a hand over the surface.
With no formal training, he answered a speculative advert, was taken on by the sculptor Peter Randall-Page, and spent ten years carving on Dartmoor, absorbing the example of Brancusi and Isamu Noguchi. He works without preparatory drawings, marking the forms straight onto Kilkenny limestone, Carrara marble or Ancaster stone and cutting by eye, with his bronzes cast at the Pangolin foundry in Gloucestershire.
Working independently for well over a decade, Welch has exhibited across the UK, Australia, the United States and Japan, shown at the on form sculpture exhibition, and is now collected internationally.
