Cold Cast Bronze Sculpture

Jim Clark

Jim Clark sculpture

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£185.00

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This sculpture presented the same problems as Senna only more so. Jim Clark was a man of two distinct personalities. In the car he was decisive, relaxed, supreme in his confidence and a pure natural talent that meant he never needed to drive at more than nine tenths of his ability to humble the opposition. But out of the car Clark was a nervous, shy, nail-biting individual uncomfortable in the spotlight and struggling to make simple decisions like where to go to dinner or what movie to see.

Over a period of about a year I made eight versions of Jim Clark. I had intended to portray him with that broad smile we see in so many black and white photographs but it never really captured the whole man. Then I tried a brooding approach but that made him too anxious and somehow fearful looking. In the end the excellent video "Nine Days in Summer" came to my rescue. There is a slightly staged segment towards the end of the film where Clark visits Watkins Glen before the 1967 Grand Prix. Clark walking alone on the rain-soaked track is made all the more poignant because we know he is to die at Hockenheim only a few months later. He looks calm and a little preoccupied and I felt that this would be an ideal moment to take my sculptural snapshot.

Height 12in/30cm

Weight 5kg

£185.00

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