The Field

Art in the field

EVERY artist needs a muse and for Belinda Sillars that muse was a racehorse called Brambledown, or Bramble, who inspired her as a sculptor to move to the next level. Sillars explains: “I had always had a burning ambition to ride in point-to-points, but pointing is not an easy thing to get into – particularly finding money to buy a suitable horse – so I didn’t really think it could happen.” All the same, she went off to Ireland to see if she could find something within

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