Sally Wakelin – Studies in Creativity
Paintings, drawings, sculpture and writing
The morning sunlight was particularly vivid today just at the right time to fall through an early work by my mother Rosemary Wakelin casting a pink glow onto the wood floor and throwing a pink sash around the clock-case.
The sculpture in pink and blue Perspex hangs in my hall window and reminds me of the time it hung in my mother’s house filling her kitchen with a warm pink glow.
A work in progress – based on rotations of four types of cast disc – the backboard will be white.
Light falling across a corrugated surface always intrigues me – inspired by my father Richard Wakelin’s sculptures from 20 years ago, I made this smaller copy of his Stepped Cube.
A few years ago, I made this pleated paper installation in the deconsecrated chapel, whilst attending a Drawing course at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with David Nash, amongst others. A length of drawing paper 5m x 1.5m repeatedly folded and set in front of one of the long windows, behaved like a bucket of light and has inspired me to make more pleated paper sculptures since.
All evening, in the corner of my eye, I kept seeing these flowers in a black glass vase on a black glass table, lit by a table lamp. I was as intrigued by the reflections in the table and in the vase, trying to get above it to get the best reflection
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I have at last succeeded in making the piece I had planned, though this is very much a test piece, I think I have made all the required mistakes now, so when I make another, it will be of good quality.
Speeding up the drying process by putting the cast in the oven at less than 50°C leaving the door ajar so that moisture can escape, can prevent rust stains forming (seen here in the third image).
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Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
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