Helen Sinclair, born in 1954 and brought up in Carmarthenshire, has made her living from her sculpture since 1988 and exhibits widely in the UK including annually at the Chelsea Flower Show. She has public pieces in the UK and Ireland, including a 2m bronze crucifix in Brecon Cathedral, and has work in private collections on five continents

The sculptures in the exhibition are bronze, foundry-cast by the traditional lost wax method from originals made of wood found on South Wales’ beaches.

“I assemble the wood as I find it and manipulate it as little as possible. I sometimes have to cut a piece down, or angle an edge differently where it meets another section but any disturbance of the surface depletes the wood of its integrity and charm and weakens it aesthetically. Every piece of wood has its own history that is unknown to me and this mystique imparts a poetry and a drama to the finished sculpture.”