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Heather Jansch (1948–2021) turned driftwood gathered on Devon beaches into expressive horses, from small mixed-media pieces to life-size sculptures. Her close knowledge of equine anatomy informed the work; later, concerns about driftwood outdoors led her to develop bronze casts. The Eden Horse brought her sculptures to a wider audience, and her estate says it continues to complete editions using moulds she made during her lifetime.
How Heather Jansch found her sculptural material
Jansch studied fine art at Walthamstow Technical College and Goldsmiths, University of London. Born Heather Sewell, she married folk musician Bert Jansch in 1968. While living on a Welsh hill farm, she bred Welsh Cobs. Her official biography describes those years as an apprenticeship in equine anatomy and behaviour—knowledge that helped her observe horses as living forms rather than simply as motifs.
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After settling in South Devon in 1981, she developed a more impressionistic painting style and began experimenting with sculpture, including copper wire and plaster. Those materials did not give her horse figures the vitality she wanted. Driftwood found on Devon beaches offered a different way forward: its existing contours could suggest a body, while copper wire could help connect and extend the form. In her memorial profile, Jansch recalled, “The answer came in on the tide. Driftwood. It was like a thunderbolt, I had never seen it used in sculpture but combining it with copper wire gave the sculpture a power and authentic quality that made it something extraordinary.”
How Jansch made driftwood horses
Rather than carving a horse from a uniform block, Jansch built her figures from pieces of found wood, using their shapes, textures and natural irregularities as part of the composition. Copper wire helped join or extend the material. The result could be recognisably equine without smoothing away the character of the wood: the horse’s form emerged through the arrangement of separate pieces.
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Her catalogue shows the range of scale and format. It includes life-size horses, foals, horse heads, smaller driftwood sculptures and bronze works. Etalon is described in her official catalogue as one of her most accomplished small mixed-media sculptures and part of her small driftwood series. RaRa is identified as the first complete driftwood horse of hers to be cast in bronze and as a work paired with Beethoven.
What is the Eden Horse?
After Jansch’s work appeared in the 1999 exhibition “The Shape of the Century” and its 2000 London Docklands presentation, Eden Project founder Tim Smit invited her to become artist-in-residence, according to her official biography. During that residency she made the life-size driftwood sculpture known as the Eden Horse. Its scale helped bring her work to a broader audience. The Eden Project currently lists bronze and driftwood horse sculptures by Jansch outside its main entrance; visitors should check the project’s current information when planning a visit.
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Why Jansch made bronze casts
Driftwood’s limited durability in outdoor settings became a concern. Jansch worked for several years with fine-art foundry mould-makers to develop a way to cast her complex forms in bronze. This let her translate the assembled shapes of her sculptures into a more durable material without treating the bronze works as newly designed pieces.
Jansch’s estate says it continues casting from moulds she made during her career to complete editions she began. These are posthumous casts from her moulds, not new designs by Jansch. The available information does not provide a comparative conservation assessment, so bronze should not be treated as maintenance-free or guaranteed suitable for every site.
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- Made using high quality resin and cold cast bronze technique
- Cold casting is the technique of mixing resin and bronze together to create detailed sculpture with metallic feature
- Measurement: L 13 5/8" * W 3 1/2" * H 8 5/8"
- Gift boxed with black felt bottom protection
- Good weight as tabletop display, perfect gift for collectors
Where to see or enquire about her work
The estate identifies Diehl Gallery in Jackson, Wyoming, and Sculpture by the Lakes in Dorset as places where Jansch’s work can be seen. It also describes exhibition relationships including Pangolin London, Messums West and Moorwood Art. Displays and exhibition dates can change, so contact the venue or estate to confirm what is currently on view.
The estate invites enquiries about purchasing existing work and commissioning bronze editions. Availability, edition status and prices are not established in the estate’s general overview; ask the estate or a named gallery for details before making plans. For a book about her driftwood horses and other sculptures, the Heather Jansch Memorial describes Sculpting in Driftwood as an account of her creative life, and the official artist site directs book buyers to Olchard Press. Current stock and edition details should be confirmed with the seller.
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- Materials Cold Cast Bronze
- Dimension 11.22 inches x 4.53 inches x 12.4 inches
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- Material Cold Cast Bronze
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Sources
- Heather Jansch’s official biography, for her training, Welsh Cobs, development of her materials, Eden residency and bronze casting.
- Heather Jansch’s estate profile, for current representation, work overview and edition enquiries.
- Eden Project: Arts and culture at Eden, for its listing of her horse sculptures near the entrance.
- Heather Jansch Memorial: Heather’s Profile, for her first-person recollection of discovering driftwood.
- Official portfolio: RaRa and official portfolio: Etalon, for examples of her bronze and small mixed-media work.
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