Natural Selection
Emma Stothard is a sculptor whose outdoor pieces, mainly comprising lifelike portrayals of animals woven from willow and steel, have won plaudits from around the country. “I can’t sing and I can’t play an instrument, but I can draw, and as a child I was encouraged to,” she says of her early artistic awakening.
Emma grew up on the banks of the River Humber, with the North Sea a stone’s throw away on one side and farmland and wild spaces on the other. Enthralled by her surrounds and obsessed with drawing, Emma knew the direction she wanted to
