A new public sculpture project is now underway in the studio: a 12ft (3.6m) high repoussé bronze Sea Bell for Bangor, Co. Down, based on the 8th C. Bangor Bell. It will be complemented by six smaller decorated bell features in granite surrounds to commemorate 1,400 years since Columbanus' journey from Bangor to Bobbio in Italy via Luxeuil, Bregenz and Milan. The stainless steel structure for the large bell is now complete and the first waves - a metaphor for the spreading early Irish spirituality across the sea - are currently being cut and beaten into the surface of the sculpture.
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Cutting waves and levering them out...
Shaping the waves
Donagh annealing the bronze for repoussé
Beating the main curves
Karen preparing the waxes for the satellite features
The completed Baby Bells
This is where it is going
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