{"id":66,"date":"2015-04-30T16:52:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ian-freemantle.co.uk\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2020-01-30T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T12:17:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ian-freemantle.co.uk\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Freemantle, Wood Sculptor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-77 size-full\" style=\"width: 250px!important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ian-freemantle.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/about-001-e1430413566965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\"><\/p>\n<p>Ian Freemantle\u2019s inspiration comes from his lifelong love of nature and the natural surroundings he grew up in. Even as a boy he would spend every waking hour in the woods and rolling hills of the Surrey countryside. It was inevitable that he would progress into countryside management, to forestry and arboriculture eventually finding the urge to start sculpting in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Ian\u2019s work has a style of its own with a vein of mystical realm running through it. Using the natural contours and the strength of the grain he brings individuality to each and every sculpture that he produces.  Now residing in the historical coaching town of Stony Stratford, famous for its festivals of music, poetry and the arts, Ian has enjoyed the title and recognition of \u2018the Bard\u2019 of the town in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 10 years Ian has enjoyed working for many everyday folk, Local authorities, schools and nursery\u2019s and several music festivals including an open invitation to the exclusive Weird and Wonderful Wood festival in Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p>His clients include the Royal Sandringham Estate, Centre Parcs and Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters. Ian is also famous for the Giant Bardic chair at Rushmere Country Park.<\/p>\n<p>[aside]\u201cIt takes many years to learn the skills and a lifetime to find the inspiration.\u201d[\/aside]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Freemantle\u2019s inspiration comes from his lifelong love of nature and the natural surroundings he grew up in. Even as a boy he would spend every waking hour in the woods and rolling hills of the Surrey countryside. It was inevitable that he would progress into countryside management, to forestry and arboriculture eventually finding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-freemantle.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-freemantle.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-freemantle.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-freemantle.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-freemantle.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-freemantle.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-freemantle.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}