SALLY Arnup held her  Small Bronze Animals exhibition at Pyramid Gallery, Stonegate, York, from mid-November to December 2.

The show featured 20 small to medium bronze animals and a selection of new collaborative works in ceramic with her daughter, Hannah Arnup, who runs Ballymorris Pottery with her husband in Ireland.

Sally Arnup is one of Britain’s most respected sculptors of animals with works in major collections, including Prince Philip’s horse Storm, commissioned for the Duke of Edinburgh. Her clients have varied from Her Majesty the Queen and the Earl of Chichester to the University of York and the Vintner's Company in London.

"It was a great honour to be showing bronzes by York’s most eminent sculptor again," says Pyramid owner Terry Brett. "This show was a highlight in this season’s exhibition calendar for us. Sally’s work was complement other sculptures in the gallery by well-known such as John W. Mills, Peter Hayes, John Maltby and Jonathan Newdick."

John W Mills recalls first meeting Sally at the Royal College of Art's Sculpture School in 1956. "Sally was a fellow student, one of a group who had already made serious decisions about their preferred subject matter and mode of working," he says. "This stance I admired because my two years away from any art school atmosphere on National Service had helped me to make the same kind of decision.

"Curiously, despite the art world being in a state of flux and confusion, we both made the choice to work directly from the world as we saw and experienced it. In Sally's case her decision was to make the animal world her primary subject, and soon after the RCA, she was to become firmly established as our leading 'animalier' with a growing national and international reputation."

On show too were contemporary silkscreen prints by Manchester-born artist Dan Baldwin. Baldwin's subject matter is the interior of his own mind, from ruminations on love, memory or philosophical issues, to an airing of opinion on politics and current affairs.