Born in 1946 and trained at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, Philip Hearsey spent thirty years working across interiors, furniture, and architecture before committing fully to sculpture.
He is self-taught as a sculptor and has built a practice centred entirely on sand casting, an ancient method far removed from the lost wax processes used by most contemporary art foundries. The technique is unforgiving and imposes a disciplinary simplicity of form, producing bronze work whose surfaces carry the traces of process, patination, and time. His subjects are drawn from the landscape and border country of Herefordshire, the sea, and the observed details of daily life, rendered as intimate, tactile forms intended for domestic and private settings. He has exhibited at the Discerning Eye at Mall Galleries, the British Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery, the Affordable Art Fair, and the Cotswold Sculpture Park. He is based in Longtown, Herefordshire.
