Going Beyond

The form of the sculpture is intentionally primitive. Man and Woman united, go forward together. Their arms are one.

One can touch the life within the womb. Indeed, one feels the desire to do so, to feel it move.

"Carrying an unborn child was a time of stong emotions. It generated the deepest feelings of my earthly life."

The couple feels uplifted. One perceives the magical power and joy of giving life.

"It is a felling that produced in me the need to create: to create forms, to invent a language, to give life to colours - to go beyond."

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.