I would like to see my sculptures in public gardens, to see children climbing on them and to hear their laughter.

Owanto’s works are being enlarged into limited editions of bronzes of different sizes.

Owanto started to sculpt in London in 1990 when she was expecting her first child.
Her friendship with Elizabeth Wright, R.C.A., a talented sculptress, sometime assistant to Sir Anthony Caro, was most enlightening. Elizabeth gave her a profound understanding of form and balance. Owanto spontaneously creates figures in terracotta which in turn become magnificent bronzes, both powerful and tender, telling us of her tangible world where the joy of parenthood is evident.