This bronze still life of various vegetables on a plate is from Margara's 'Great-grandfather's Still Life' collection. The pieces were modelled in wax and the final bronze forms made from lost wax casting. The bronzes were then decorated with polychrome in oil, giving each form a lifelike appearance.
Margara Cortés Maruri was a student in cabinetmaking and furniture restoration when she ended up enrolling in a metalwork course by mistake. This was ...