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Field Visit
Date 30 June 2003
Event ID 616116
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/616116
Herm of Tom Leonard by Alex Main.
Head of poet, Tom Leonard, bearded with shirt collar and the suggestion of a textured cardigan or waistcoat, on tall square stone pedestal with a glass plaque either side of it. From the side the head is almost egg-shaped with a very prominent nose and long ears, from the front the face is long and narrow beneath the domed forehead. The cheeks sink into vertical folds, especially on his left. The eyes are virtually all drill-hole, the gaze concentrated, eyebrows a strong horizontal line. The mouth is quite full with the lower lip shifted slightly to his right. The portrait has a quizzical air.
Inscriptions: On front of plinth (incised letters): TOM / LEONARD
Glass plaques at sides contain poet's biography on the left and two of his poems, 'Proem' and 'The Voyeur', on the right.
Signatures: In centre of back edge, within a square (stamped?): BLACK / ISLE / BRONZE
On same edge at either end (incised letters): ALEX MAIN
Design period: 2003
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0863)
