William Peers : New Carvings

Carving directly into raw marble blocks, William Peers's finished sculptures achieve a breathtaking delicacy that … seems to defy the technical challenges of this demanding medium.  Describing these new works, Peter Stiles wrote of them arriving out of a “kind of reverie…the stone billows and bends as if a wind has blown onto them”. Yet Peers wears his virtuosity lightly, keeping his attention solely focussed on the power of a simple form to draw us more deeply into the, exquisite, tactile surfaces of marble.