Nicola Jain Collections Ltd
ArtistNew Zealand
About Artist:
Nicola was blessed to grow up in a household with an abundance of creativity. Having a world renowned artist father Rick Lewis teaching and guiding her on one side and an immensely talented mother Sharon Delany on the other. She was destined to create and pursue a career as an artist. However this was not always so she says that , "a lack of confidence and belief in my abilities kept me behind a desk for many years until enough was enough the burning desire to grab hold of my dreams and jump into my destiny became too great to ignore any longer".
So she ecided to step up and take massive action. In September 2011, she was a CFO living in New Zealand by November was an artist getting lost in the wilds of Ireland!! She moved to Ireland and transformed her life! While there she learned a dying artistic technique from a true master painter, her father. She started an exciting apprenticeship and spent the next ten months immersed in the craft of ceramic painting.
About Artwork:
Inroducing the iconic New Zealand Thoroughbred, Zabeel!!
The bay son of Sir Tristram from the Nureyev mare Lady Giselle, iconic New Zealand thoroughbred Zabeel has carved out a place in racing history, so it is fitting that he has now been immortalised in bronze.
New Zealand artist Nicola Lewis spent hundreds of hours sculpting the horse, completing the project just weeks before Zabeel died in September this year.
During his 22 years at stud - from 1991 to 2013 - Zabeel sired more than 1,000 individual winners, producing an unprecedented 106 Group One winners and 44 individual group one winners, with his legacy surpassing even that of his own sire, Sir Tristram.
The finished product is a case of third time lucky for Nicola, who had two major setbacks during the project, which delayed completion by many months. “I was devastated when the first clay sculpture, which took me almost a year to craft, was destroyed by careless handling at the first foundry I employed. Hundreds more hours later, I nervously entrusted the second sculpture to a new foundry, which was also unable to complete the bronze; however this time the clay sculpture was intact.” The third time was the charm, and both Nicola and Sir Patrick are thrilled with the results.
“This bronze can stand alone, or alongside the sculpture of Sir Tristram that my father, renowned artist Rick Lewis, was commissioned to produce in 1984,” Nicola says.
Nicola Jain Collections has released a strictly limited edition of the bronze sculpture. Endorsed by Cambridge Stud’s Sir Patrick Hogan, the bronze is mounted on a black granite base accompanied by an engraved certificate, name badge and book.
Orders and enquiries can be made to: info@nicolajaincollections.com
Nicola Lewis
Chapion Stallion Zabeel
- 2001-present
- 42 x 30 x 14 cm
- Fine Art Category: sculptures
- Medium: bronze
- Origin: New Zealand
- Certificate of Authenticity: yes
- Signed: Signed verso
- No / Edition: 21/300
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- Price: 3,495.00 NZD
- Seller: Nicola Jain Collections Ltd, New Zealand
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- Artplode ID: 2517
- Artplode Seller ID: 593
About Artist:
Nicola was blessed to grow up in a household with an abundance of creativity. Having a world renowned artist father Rick Lewis teaching and guiding her on one side and an immensely talented mother Sharon Delany on the other. She was destined to create and pursue a career as an artist. However this was not always so she says that , "a lack of confidence and belief in my abilities kept me behind a desk for many years until enough was enough the burning desire to grab hold of my dreams and jump into my destiny became too great to ignore any longer".
So she ecided to step up and take massive action. In September 2011, she was a CFO living in New Zealand by November was an artist getting lost in the wilds of Ireland!! She moved to Ireland and transformed her life! While there she learned a dying artistic technique from a true master painter, her father. She started an exciting apprenticeship and spent the next ten months immersed in the craft of ceramic painting.
About Artwork:
Inroducing the iconic New Zealand Thoroughbred, Zabeel!!
The bay son of Sir Tristram from the Nureyev mare Lady Giselle, iconic New Zealand thoroughbred Zabeel has carved out a place in racing history, so it is fitting that he has now been immortalised in bronze.
New Zealand artist Nicola Lewis spent hundreds of hours sculpting the horse, completing the project just weeks before Zabeel died in September this year.
During his 22 years at stud - from 1991 to 2013 - Zabeel sired more than 1,000 individual winners, producing an unprecedented 106 Group One winners and 44 individual group one winners, with his legacy surpassing even that of his own sire, Sir Tristram.
The finished product is a case of third time lucky for Nicola, who had two major setbacks during the project, which delayed completion by many months. “I was devastated when the first clay sculpture, which took me almost a year to craft, was destroyed by careless handling at the first foundry I employed. Hundreds more hours later, I nervously entrusted the second sculpture to a new foundry, which was also unable to complete the bronze; however this time the clay sculpture was intact.” The third time was the charm, and both Nicola and Sir Patrick are thrilled with the results.
“This bronze can stand alone, or alongside the sculpture of Sir Tristram that my father, renowned artist Rick Lewis, was commissioned to produce in 1984,” Nicola says.
Nicola Jain Collections has released a strictly limited edition of the bronze sculpture. Endorsed by Cambridge Stud’s Sir Patrick Hogan, the bronze is mounted on a black granite base accompanied by an engraved certificate, name badge and book.
Orders and enquiries can be made to: info@nicolajaincollections.com
