CHRIS BLADEN FLY FISHER AND MASTER BRONZE SCULPTOR

Saturday, 01 September 2012 03:08

CHRIS BLADEN

Master fly fisher and bronze fish sculptor

PHOTO-ESSAY by TOM SUTCLIFFE

Chris' studio is based in the beautiful seaside village of Kalk Bay just outside Cape Town. He has fished widely around the world in salt and freshwater and now numbers many overseas clients among collectors of his outstanding work. He is married to Rena and they live in Glen Cairn near Simonstown.

1. A lifesize leaping Sailfish

2. A trout rising to the fly

3. Fishing the Karnemelk stream Eastern Cape

4. After the patina is added

5. Artist with tigerfish

6. Chris with a Yellow-margin triggerfish caught on a fly

7. A black marlin.

8. Ace Bulls supporter Highland Lodge Eastern Cape

9. A bronze of a sailfish

10. Bronzes of yellow fin tuna

11. Chris and Rena on their wedding day with a trout stream flowing in the background

12. In a snow scene Barkly East

14. Yellowfin tuna chasing flying fish

15. Chris in his bright-lit new Kalk Bay studio

16. With a mahseer bronze an Asian gamefish on the balcony of his Kalk Bay studio

17. Chris celebrates a lovely trevalley caught off the African coast

18. A bronze of a Permit

19. With a pretty rainbow from and Eastern Cape lake on the day when it snowed

20. Beautifully coloured sailfish

21. Chris working on an intricate clay model

22. Yellow fin tuna

24. Before the patina is added

25. At work on a wax mould of a sailfish in his Kalk Bay studio

26. With a large kingfish

27. Yellow fin tuna

 

 

 

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