More recently, Neil Dalrymple has been including coarse fish amongst his ceramic sculptures. He has become increasingly fascinated by their various colours and the habitats in which they live. As well as his more usual larger sculptures of fish Neil has recently been producing a wide range of smaller coarse fish (10cm-20cms) such as tench, carp, roach, rudd, perch, barbel, chubb, bream and pike.
Mirror Carp.
33cmLx20cmH
The mirror carp is distinguished its sparse distribution of large scales.
A pike lurking by weeds and a sunken fencepost.
40cmL x 40cmH
The pike is a top level predator of freshwater fish. Neil catches and returns them whilst salmon fishing in the River Dee.
Bonefish. A saltwater tropical predator fish.
51cmLx20cmH
A private commission for a customer who caught, photographed and returned it during a fishing trip in the Caribbean.
Common Carp.
10cmH
An example of one of Neil's smaller sculptures that have become very popular as they still manage to capture the charm of this little coarse fish.