▲ Judith Holmes Drewry (ARR applies)

Judith Holmes Drewry, 1950-2011 began her artistic training at the Norwich School in 1968. She later travelled to the United States to attend the San Francisco Art Institute for two years. She returned to her native Leicestershire in 1973, where she established a studio and bronze foundry with which to work on her sculpture. Throughout her career she exhibited both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions as far afield as Dubai and Australia. Over the last fifteen years of her career, Holmes Drewry cast over fifty life-sized figures in bronze. She is remembered by the Le Blanc Fine Art Foundry, which she founded with her partner and fellow sculptor Lloyd Le Blanc.

This figure, which is typical of her work is one of an edition of 9 of which only two are known to have been cast. The other stands at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons in Oxfordshire.