My Jam Jars and Other Memories - Sculpture by Roger Edwards

16th May 2011

In the Studio Gallery at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery - 26 May to 3 September

Retired consultant anaesthetist Roger Edwards reveals his boyhood passion for bugs and creepy crawlies. He brings to Worthing Museum and Art Gallery over 30 large stone sculptures based on crabs, spiders, woodlice and other crawling bugs that you find in dark corners.

Roger produced the larger-than-life creepy crawlies by carving the insects from stone and marble. He joined complicated parts, such as spider legs, with surgical techniques he learned at Worthing and Southlands Hospitals.

Roger said: “When I retired from medicine my close colleagues presented me with a set of sculpting tools and a weekend course in stone sculpture at West Dean. I am still surprised by what emerges from a block of stone; the process seems to take me by the scruff of the neck and the stone tells me what to do. I am amused and intrigued that many people with an instinctive aversion to spiders, parasites and grubs are compelled to caress my stone sculptures.”

This is the first time that Roger has had a public display of his fascinating hobby.

For more details please see the Worthing Museum and Art Gallery website.