Carol Pearce (b.1970)

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Carol Peace studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art and drawing at The Prince’s Drawing School. She has obtained numerous commissions both public and private and solo shows in London, Athens, Zurich, France, Spain and Holland. In 2007 she co-founded the Bristol Drawing School and was the artistic director for four years.

In Pearce's words she 'is a sculptor who could not work without drawing'. The process of drawing, the immediate and emotional response to her subject, is in part what she aims for in her work.  She sculpts in clay, which like charcoal is quick to make marks with, once finished it is cast into bronze on which we can still see and touch the swift marcations of her original moulding.