Sculptors are magicians

For Jenny Green, sculptors are magicians, taking the mundane and transforming it – bashing it, bending it, moulding it, welding it, casting it – into objects that tickle the imagination or inflame the emotions.

Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi did precisely that for Jenny with his iconic Bird in Space. So did the American David Smith with his Australia and his Cubi, the British Barbara Hepworth with her Form, and the Italian Alberto Giacometti and his Walking Man.

Always an art lover, it was works like these that prompted Jenny to turn into a museum and gallery junkie, then to collect sculpture and, later, to be drawn into