I’ve always wanted to do an animal in full flight, so a cheetah is the perfect subject. It’s amazing how focused they are - their head always upright regardless of the acute angles it takes the corners.

This cheetah of mine, is in full flight, but it’s intended prey has cornered the other way, so this moment is just before it changes direction, leaning over to the opposite side - all in a blur of movement. You literally have to take a photograph or study this kind of moment in extreme slow motion. Imagine what artists had to do before the invention of the camera to capture a moment in time.

This is now a finished piece, mounted on a perspex base, with all the weight on one foot planted in the ground - and I am delighted with the end result.

Standing at 16cms, the body length is 25cms and nose to tail is 42cms.

This is a series of 15 and the next in the series is 7/15.

Price: R47 700.00

The first six are in private collections in various parts of the world from the West Indies to Denver to Wiltshire, and three in SA. The silver piece is also a private collector, and gives a good example of how a solid silver sculpture comes out. I kept it roughly polished so as to retain the detail (light and shadow)

Price: R106 200.00

https://www.saatchiart.com/en-za/art/Sculpture-Hunting-Cheetah-in-Silver/1528511/9371869/view