Safari bronze artist

Jerome Bruins

Jerome started sculpting very early in life. Aged six, living in Monkey Bay on the shores of Lake Malawi, he made many sculptures using plasticine with lots of encouragement from his mother. This was in the mid-60s when toys were not readily available in deepest, darkest Africa, so Jerome and his brother Bas made all of the toys they needed out of plasticine.

School, and then later providing for a young family, took its toll, and Jerome only took to serious sculpting again some 25 years ago. Having lived most of his life in Arusha, Tanzania, the gateway to some of the continent's famous, unspoiled wildlife areas, the obvious choice was to focus on wildlife. Given that there were no bronze foundries in Tanzania, Jerome cast his first pieces in South Africa. However, due to the logistical problems that this entailed, he decided to start his own foundry in Tanzania.

He was privileged to have had the input and advice from legendary wildlife photographers like Hugo van Lawick and Leo Kunkel. This helped immensely in forming a desire to stay close to nature when creating sculpture. His knowledge and experience rearing young, wild animals on his estate in Tanzania have formed the cornerstone of his journey as a sculptor, where his close proximity to the wildlife has allowed him to observe the nuances and behaviors of an array of different species.

His obsession with dimension and anatomical structure ensures that the work he creates is a masterful representation of his subjects.

Jerome's work

Bronze Sculptures & Monuments By Jerome Bruins.

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