"Hubert Dalwood was born in Bristol on 2 June 1924. After serving an apprenticeship with the Bristol Aviation Company he joined the Royal Navy as an engineer before attending Bath Academy of Art (1946-49) where he studied sculpture under Kenneth Armitage. During this period he spent several summers in the artists' colony of St Ives, Cornwall, where he worked as an assistant to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth."(56groupwales.com)
"Until 1956 Dalwood was a sculptor of figures - figures that were boldly, even brutally, re-formed to coincide with artist’s intention, but later adopted an abstract imagery, shedding gradually such reminiscences of the human body as remained in his sculptures. He worked in clay, modelling the surface by hand and leaving tell tale finger prints and marks, and casting pieces in bronze or aluminium. He tended to combine geometric shapes with surprising free forms, to juxtapose extreme differences of scale, and to ignore the then conventions of organic form relationships."(visualarts.britishcouncil.org)
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