Our boy started drawing stick men when he was about 3. Not your ordinary common-or-garden stick men, but ones with life and movement.
When he was around 5/6 he did a pencil drawing of of nude men on a beach in a kind of Matisse style, before he progressed to doing sculpture.
When he was 9 he presented some work to a tutor in the High School who immediately referred us to references on Giacommetti - our son's work 'uncannily' like his (we Philistines's had never even heard of him)
A lot of this stuff he took to school to 'show and tell'
A lot of this stuff strangely went missing.
More recenty we ahd the copper wire workcruxifixes, which the teachers grabbed!
Now I'm looking around for a reasonably priced fine art foundry who can preserve a lot of his mini 'masterpieces' as the wax and clay he uses has a limited shelf life.
I wonder what's next
