'DESPERATE LEAP INTO DANGER'      

Entitled "The Leap" this lifelike bronze wildlife sculpture of a wildebeest aka gnu, is widely held to be one of Sally's best works to date. It was accepted for inclusion in the premier London exhibition held in the Mall Gallery in September 2006 by the Society of Wildlife Artists.
In Africa, it is said of the Wildebeest that it was the last animal created which God cobbled together from bits and pieces left over from other beasts. No one part of the Gnu's body is contiguous with another. There is no natural flow, which makes the sculptor's task hard enough even before the vivid bronze is posed impossibly on one pointed hoof leaping forward into a river bed during its annual migration South in the African spring. A creature of odd appearance and childish habits, the Gnu is subtitled 'the clown of the bushveld' but there is nothing childish about this work depicting the desperate effort of the wild rush southward in massed herds flanked by predators eager to cut out the straggler and ambushed by crocodiles at each hazardous river crossing. This magnificent sculpture depicts the desperation of extreme effort in the face of danger that can be both seen and felt.

Material	Size in Inches			Limited Edition	Price	Delivery in UK
	Width	Height	Depth
Foundry Bronze	8	21	18	8	£3200	free

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