Sally Arnup was one of the finest animal sculptors of her generation. Her passion for and affinity with both material and subject, and her insistence on working from life, shines through in the sheer vitality and character in each and every sculpture. Sally Baynton-Williams was born in London in 1930; she recounted how at the age of two and a half she was given a lump of clay at nursery school and felt an instant fascination with the material. From a young age she set her heart on becoming a sculptor, and with the support of her family left conventional schooling at the age of 13 to train at Kingston College of Art. After spending a year at Camberwell School of Art, in 1950 Sally entered the Royal College of Art, where she would...