Terence Coventry's work is strongly rooted in the figurative tradition and explores the artist's relationship with the rural environment of his life on the Lizard Peninsula. Constructed in Cor-ten steel and bronze, his sculptures are expressive of the agricultural history of our past and present, and are a reminder of the relationship we hold with each other and our fellow creatures.
Terence Coventry's natural talent was recognised from a young age and he gained early admittance to Stourbridge School of Art where he was taught by Keith Leonard, a former studio assistant of Barbara Hepworth. He went on to study at the Royal College of Art, but after his request to change from the painting to the sculpture course was refused, Coventry turned his back on the art world and spent a quarter of a century farming near Coverack in West Cornwall.
He returned to sculpture in 1985 and is now regarded as one of the country's foremost contemporary artists. In 2013, the New Craftsman hosted his very first exhibition within his home county of Cornwall for over twenty years.
selected Commissions
Bugatti Foundation, Arles, France / Schiffer Sculpture Foundation, Philadelphia, USA / L'abbey Fontaine, France / Nature in Art Museum, Gloucestershire / Buxton, Derbyshire / Ashford, Kent / Soho Square, London / St Keverne, Cornwall / Sculpture at Goodwood, Sussex.