Hamish sculpts animals as living, moving things rather than museum specimens. His bronzes exhibit a moment of motion: a bull mid-stride, an eagle about to lift. His subjects come from watching the real thing up close and in the wild.
Raised on a livestock farm in Cornwall and largely self-taught, he models in clay with fast, often unrepeatable gestures, working quickly to keep the life in the pose. The finished pieces are cast by the lost wax method as limited editions in bronze, stainless steel and silver.
In 2014 he won the Goodman's Fields commission in the City of London. He unveiled a group of life-size bronze horses the following year and was given the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture. He studied at Falmouth School of Art and Kingston University, and held his solo show Life in Bronze at the Mall Galleries in 2016.
