The bighorn sheep is one of the great symbols of the North American mountains - a thickset, powerfully built animal, best known for the massive curled horns carried by the rams, which can weigh more than the rest of the skeleton combined. Sure-footed on near-vertical rock, bighorns spend their lives moving across cliffs and scree slopes that few other large mammals could manage, using that terrain as both home and defence against predators.

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This sculpture captures a Bighorn standing proudly on rocky outcrop, head raised in the alert, faintly territorial posture so characteristic of the species. 

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The piece was modelled to bring out the density of the animal: the heavy shoulders, the weight of the horns, the coarse coat. It was cast in bronze in the UK using the traditional lost-wax process. Each cast in this edition of 12 is individually numbered and signed by hand, and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

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