Susan Leyland
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The Game of Kings
Marjing & Manipur
bronze
£17,500
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‘Marjing’ God of Polo and War
credited as the game’s inventor.
Marjing was an ancient Meitei God who rode a winged horse and wielded a polo mallet.
‘Manipur’ where the British Army
first laid eyes on this ancient team sport and developed it into modern day polo.
Susan Leyland
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Young Polo Ponies
fire clay
£4,000
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Susan Leyland
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Polo Ponies
bronze
£5,500
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Susan Leyland
Susan Leyland is an internationally acclaimed sculptor who specialises in the ‘art of the horse’. Her work is in represented in private and corporate collections in many countries around the world. She has exhibited her work in Europe and the USA and in 2012 she was honoured with a solo exhibition at the prestigious Marino Marini Museum in Pistoia, Italy.
Susan was born in Lancashire, but has lived most of her adult life in Impruneta, outside Florence. Impruneta, famous for its terracotta since Etruscan times, is where she learnt to work with this stony clay usually used for urns, statues and bricks. Her sculptures are modelled in semi-refractory artist clay. The working of a sculpture takes about a month beginning with the basic form to the final surface finish. When they are completely dry they are fired for a week at the MITAL terracotta works, where the temperature rises to over 1000 degrees. All fire clay pieces are unique, they are not cast in editions, they are one off sculptures. She also has bronze editions.
Susan was commissioned to create the monumental sculpture ‘The War Horse’ for Heatherwood Roundabout in Ascot to commemorate the equine sacrifices of the 1914–1918 war.
