Belinda Rush Jansen's Wilderness exhibition is showing throughout May at Durlston Castle in Swanage

Renowned artist and sculptor Belinda RushJansen has been inspired by wildlife and the wilderness and has created a new exhibition to honour it.

A celebration of the wilderness will be shown at the Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Castle, near Swanage, during May.

The exhibition will include stone carvings, bronze casts, chalk carvings, twig stags, wire ravens, lino cuts and pebble drawings. There will also be a short film on carving, and storyboards, sculpting tools and works in progress.

Belinda said she has long been inspired by wildlife in the deep countryside, both in Dorset and now in Wiltshire, where she lives and she will be on-hand throughout.

She said: “I was brought up amongst an abundance of pets, large and small and orphaned wildlife. In the absence of much family or friends, these creatures became deeply imprinted on me.

“My second, deep imprint in life was becoming a mother. When selecting my stone, I will have an animal figure or mother and child concept in mind.”

Her work draws inspiration from Chinese tomb horses, Egyptian hippo carvings, Cave paintings, North American Indian animal energies, creation myths and Eskimo carvings.

Her most recent public commission is the Staines Mare, a life sized bronze sculpture of a pony created as a memory of ancient lost heathland and native ponies that once roamed there.