Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)

Discussing the role of the horse in the artist's work, Sarah Kent (Elisabeth Frink, A Bestiary for our times, included in Elisabeth Frink Sculpture, op. cit., p. 67) comments, 'For [Frink], horses represent a multiplicity of meanings - masculine and feminine sexuality, wildness, unusual sensitivity and freedom from mental and physical constraint. It was the wild horses of the Carmargue that sparked off a series of large and small horse sculptures which she describes as 'the spirit of horses rather than the beasts themselves' ... In some prints or sculptures genitals are clearly emphasized to indicate masculine potency, while [in others] voluptuous haunches ... remind one of a seductive woman'.