Bridge Among Cypresses — bronze sculpture

A stone bridge of several arches crosses the landscape, with slender cypresses rising above it and the wide crown of a stone pine at its far end. A small dog has stopped at the top of the span — the only living presence in the scene, a tiny detail that gives the whole piece its scale and its quiet story. The composition evokes a Mediterranean landscape reduced to its simplest signs. The sculpture is handmade: cast in bronze using the lost-wax technique, then hand-worked and hand-patinated.

This is handcrafted work with a strongly tactile surface — the rough, almost crumbling texture of the bridge and the trees comes from modelling by hand, and the patina in tones of gold, ochre and green settles differently on every casting, giving each one the look of an object recovered from the earth after centuries. Its long horizontal form makes it a natural fit for a bookshelf, console table, windowsill or mantelpiece. Calm and atmospheric, it suits lovers of landscape and architecture, and makes a thoughtful gift for anyone with a connection to southern Europe.