About the artist

Ian Turnock's sculpture is inspired by complex patterns and structures in nature. Currently his main sources of inspiration are the silhouettes that trees form against the sky at different times of the year. Often it is the empty spaces and gaps that he is looking for just as much as the leaves and branches themselves, an aesthetic concept known in Japanese culture as ‘Ma’ which is akin to the silences between the notes in music. The Japanese also have a poetic word for the dappled light trees create: ‘Komorebi’.

Ian's background in graphic design influences his exploration of form and line. Drawings and photographs are the starting point from which he develops organic, abstract and figurative sculpture. He creates intricate drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut into stainless steel, corten weathering steel, aluminium, copper, brass and plywood, transforming the drawn line into a tangible object.