Marion Smith, Sculptor

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Loch Leven I

Materials: Bronze

Created: 2008

Client: TRACKS (The Rural Access Committee of Kinross-shire)

H: 8.5cm W: 8.5cm D: variable

Categories: Commissions

View at: Perimeter walk around Loch Leven

A series of sixteen circular bronze works integrated into oak seating on a network of pathways around the loch, they were designed to be site-specific relating directly to specially commissioned couplets, which reflect the landscape and heritage of the loch, they were made to appeal to children in particular.

The designs were realised by carving them into plaster, taking rubber moulds from the carvings then pouring wax into the moulds, these wax versions were used in the process of lost wax bronze casting.

Bronze medal with the detail of a head of a grass.
Bench fro Loch Leven featuring text about Holy grass is situe, showing context in the landscape.
Medal made in bronze, it has an imageincised into it of isobars and a weather front described by a curve with semi circles and triangles on it.
Close up of an oak bench with text that reads 'of windy weather when isobars lay close together. In the centre a bronze medal is embedded into the back of the bench which describes this weather.
Drawing of the cross section of a volcano
Drawing is a circle of an eel in water with a feathery plant in the foreground.
Circular bronze medal with the image of an eel underwater with a feathery plant in the foreground.
Circular bronze medal with a flower, an ear of barley, a snowflake and an oak leaf.
Circular drawing of a flower head (like a primrose), an stylised ear of barley, a snowflake and an oak leaf
Round drawing of 2 stylised fish, each holding onto the others tail.
Circular bronze medal with 2 fish which each hold the others tail in their mouths. The scales of the fish are stylised.
Circular medal with depiction of the Claret jug - trophy for the Open golf championship.
Drawing based on the claret jug, trophy for the Open golf championship.
Circular image of drawing of bracket fungi on birch tree trunks.
Round medal depicting bracket fungi.
Round medal with depiction of a glider flying upside down. Above there are clouds and below the profile of a hill and forestry.
Round drawing with depiction of a glider flying upside down. Above there are clouds and below the profile of a hill and forestry.
Close up of oak bench with the mermaid medal in the middle of the picture. The text reads 'a local lass? Guess who it was'
Circular medal with depiction of a mermaid holding a Fleur de Leys, she is holding a scroll. The letters M and R flank the figure in capital letters.
Circular bronze medal depicting a cist with a human skull, leg bone and ribs.
Close up of oak bench with the medal featuring the cist in the middle of it. There is text which reads 'staun twa auld stanes whaur aince a kist'.
Drawing in a circle of a black headed gull flying, it looks aggressive.
Circular bronze medal of a black headed gull flying, it looks aggressive.
Circular bronze medal, it has a tree in the middle, around the outside of the branches there is an alphabet. It doesn't have a j, v or w and the s is a funny shape!
Circular drawing, it has a tree in the middle, around the outside of the branches there is an alphabet. It doesn't have a j, v or w and the s is a funny shape!
Circular bronze medal with a trout on it, there are lines towards the top describing the edge of a loch, above this it says Burn Mouth.
Close up of an oak bench with a bronze medal featuring a trout, the text reads 'soom Leven troot fur crafty traivellers
Drawing in a circle of a stylised snail
Bronze medal with a stylised snail.
Circular bronze medal featuring lapwings in flight, they appear as if they are in silhouette. They are incised into the surface to hold a shadow.
Circular drawing featuring lapwings in flight, they appear as if they are in silhouette.
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