Lynn Chadwick, R.A. (1914-2003)

‘The series of Watchers stand observant but undemonstrative, sinister, armless beings … they seem to be tensed; waiting, aware that something is going to happen. The tensions arise directly from the sculptor’s treatment of surface. His technique leads him to build an armature, constructed from straight rods, and this becomes the skin as well as the bone of the figure. Everything is thus brought onto the surface, and the network of rigid lines and absence of curves is somehow expressive of a high pitch of nervous intensity, possessed by these strange immobile creatures’ (see A. Bowness, Lynn Chadwick, London, 1962).