NIGEL BOONHAM SCULPTURE:  HIPPOLYTA

   

      

Bronze 6' 2" h. Amazon Queen, heroine of ‘The Bull from the Sea’ by Mary Renault; warrior and beauty, maiden of Artemis; loved and abducted by Theseus and bore him a son, Hippolytus; fought and died defending Athens from the Amazons.

Below: finishing the sculpture in clay