Meet the Artist ???? Hamish Mackie

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Born in 1973, world-renowned sculptor Hamish Mackie grew up in the picturesque county of Cornwall, in England’s Southwest.
He began sculpting at Radley College, Oxfordshire, before studying at at Falmouth School of Art, and Kingston University, and has been sculpting as a career since 1996. It is incredible, however, that with such an exceptional eye for detail, and extraordinary ability to capture his wildlife subjects so faithfully, as a sculptor Hamish is largely self taught.
Along with an innate talent, a childhood spent growing-up on a farm, and having had the privilege of observing wildlife in many corners of the world at first hand is likely to be a causal element in his success. He believes that close observation and research of his subjects is crucial to be able to understand them and represent their qualities through his work: ““Observing animals in their own environment, in their natural habitat, is essential to understanding the subject’s physical and instinctive traits. For example, the disposition of a captive predator is very different from that of a predator in the wild”.
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