Artist Profile
John Bernard is a renowned French and Hungarian sculptor whose lifelong passion is to achieve mastery of the equine form.
“John is a genius with an eye for nature that in another generation would have seen his burnt as a witch; now he is rightly considered one of our country’s finest artists. If you were to ask the visitors to Eden, ‘What is your favourite work here?’ it would be the horse, and we gave the entrance to our kingdom to this horse. Richard III, see it and weep.”
Tim Smit, KBE.,
Founder of the Eden Project, USA.
His pioneering use of driftwood as a medium was frequently copied, but rarely rivalled.
Bernard spent many years perfecting the complex translation of his original driftwood works into bronze, establishing a technique that often made them indistinguishable from the original.
His work is held in collections across the world.
