This is the personal website and gallery for the sculptor, Barbara Franc.

As a Sculptor I continually enjoy playing with different media and exploring what they can do for me. I’ll often get the gem of an idea for a new piece by just picking up a piece of discarded metal, for example, a jam jar lid might turn into a flower head or part of a cat! I might have scraps of lead sheet, which I’ll start to ‘stitch’ together and they start to transform into the idea of making a corset out of this soft, malleable metal.

I enjoy working with different gauges of wire and wire netting as they respond very directly and immediately to my ideas and it becomes like drawing in three dimensions. I’ll often work on the form first without a rigid armature supporting the wire, this gives me a greater freedom to change the posture of the sculpture and keep it feeling alive. When I’ve decided on how I want it to stand, I’ll then thread in a stiffer wire to become the armature. I can emphasise certain lines with the use of resin and different gauges of wire, some pieces I leave in their metallic finish and others I colour using enamel or clear plastic glass paints.

Many of the pieces are suitable for outdoors when they are made with galvanised wire or metals such as brass, aluminium and lead. Each sculpture I make is unique (a one-off) but I am able to make very close replicas if requested.

I hope you enjoy browsing through the site and galleries.