Nic Fiddian-Green FRSS

It is not enough to say that Nic Fiddian Green is Britain’s most accomplished and innovative equestrian sculptor. His huge bronze horse’s head at Hyde Park Corner has literally elevated equestrian art to a new level. The various renditions of Horse at Water express what Nic describes as “just the simple idea of the beauty of a horse”.  Except that it is not simple. These heads have a sentient, alert quality, as if they know we’re watching them. They radiate the sense of a pause just before movement, which is not surprising: these heads seem almost to pour onto their plinths, or to be balletically au point . And yet they also radiate an aura of calm; anybody who has encountered the monumental “Still Water “ at Hyde Park Corner has experienced something very like TS Eliot’s “still point in a turning world.”