Mother of God Church Lions
These two lions sit in front of Mother of God Church in Covington Kentucky. The originals were sculpted and cast in concrete in Germany about 100 years ago. Over the years their surface details had slowly deteriorated and then a truck backed into one of them (hit & run), causing breakage and internal fracturing.
I re-sculpted the lions in clay from scratch, recreating the broken and missing parts, sharpening details that had been worn away over the years, and in some aspects improving on the original sculpting. I then had them cast in Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC).
Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC)
51 x 34 x 22 inches