Lot 101: Joyce Playle Picasso~s Goat Bronze with variegated

Joyce Playle
Picasso~s Goat
Bronze with variegated green-brown patination
Signed and numbered 2 from an edition of 9
82cm.; 32ins high by 98cm.; 38½ins long
Joyce studied Fine Art at the SW Essex Technical College and School of Art in the early 60~s and was especially drawn to ceramics and painting. After leaving college she taught for a while then set up her own pottery workshop in parallel with having a family.
In 1990 Joyce went to Amersham College as a mature student. She studied painting, developed an interest in sculpture and gained a distinction in the Higher Diploma of Art and Design.
At present Joyce is concentrating on sculpture, exploring animal and human forms and her work is realised in a variety of materials including twigs, metal, clay, plaster and fibrocem, cast with resin and in bronze.
Joyce has exhibited both paintings and sculptures in galleries and exhibitions, including: Waterperry, The Red Galleries, Aylesbury Museum, Bucks Artweeks, Oxon Artweeks, Bucks. Art Forum, Asthall Manor, Fenny Lodge, Jelly Legg~d Chicken, Ron Anderson, and The Affordable Art Fair in London.
Joyce is a founding member of the Bicester Sculpture Group