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Jean Doyle

Jean Doyle (Born 1930) is active/lives in South Africa.  Jean Doyle is known for Female figure sculpture, painting.

Jean Doyle form Wynberg, Cape Town South Africa is one of South Africa's well-known sculptors whose work is realistic and depicts human figures and animals. Among her most famous works are Nelson Mandela for the statue outside the South Africa embassy in Washington DC and Jumbo, the life-size elephant at the Cape Town International Airport.

Doyle integrates images of Africa with the influence of European culture. Her realism cloaks universal truths and hides a sometimes revolutionary spirit.

Jean started her art career as a painter and then discovered sculpture to be a more expressive art form. Shehas sculpted for over thirty years and started her own foundry, one of the first of its kind in Cape Town.

Jean's husband Michael, has a natural affinity to working with metal and has the technical insights required to cast world-class sculptures.

"Her work is an investigation into the character of woman. The woman is presented as bold, capable and c   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1702 characters.]  Artist bio

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