I've always loved hand toned black and white photographic prints, and this spawned the idea for this sculpture. Hand toned prints give you a real depth and texture to a photograph, especially of people and flesh, and are in my opinion much more interesting than colour or straight forward black and white images.After a number of ideas had gone through my mind, I decided to sculpt Milla Jovovich whilst I was watching "The Fifth Element" film at home. As she is a model as well as an actress and singer, I easily found a photograph of her that I thought was suitable for a sculpture, and used it to base my design on.The sculpt was modelled in clay over a steel armature., and took quite a few weeks to arrive at a state I was happy with, and capture the sensuality I wanted.

The final casting was stained and lacquered to give me the metellic sepia effect I had envisioned. The result I really like, being more subtle than patinated bronze can give you. The figure is full size down to her thighs, and stands 80cm high, 32cm wide and 28 cm deep