I am having fun running here, there and everywhere. This little elephant has a very fertile imagination.
For some years I had displayed a sculpture of two baby Elephants that I called ‘The Charge Of The Light Brigade’. It did not move very well and it was collected by some people but only sporadically. I decided to discontinue the edition and hey-presto collectors started asking for the sculpture. So I sculpted two more little Elephants. Separately they are ‘The Apprentice’ and ‘The Renegade’ and on one base (they can be joined) they are ‘The Charge Of The Light Brigade 2’.
John Tolmay
Born in Southern Rhodesia in 1943, John Tolmay grew up immersed in the African bush, where an early fascination with wildlife and nature inspired him to begin drawing his observations. After agricultural college in South Africa, he traveled to Europe and the United States, working as a cowboy in Nebraska and New Mexico before returning to Rhodesia in 1966 to ranch.
Tolmay began guiding African hunting safaris in 1974, an experience that gave him an intimate understanding of wildlife, movement, and anatomy - knowledge that would later become fundamental to his work as a sculptor. He completed and sold his first bronze in 1989 and has since devoted himself to capturing the animals and experiences of a lifetime spent in the wild.
A committed conservationist as well as an artist, Tolmay founded Zambia's Nyawa Pilot Project, promoting community-based wildlife management and a sustainable relationship between rural communities and their natural resources.
