Born in 1951, Jon Buck studied at Nottingham and Manchester Art Schools. He was a Sculpture Fellow at Cheltenham College of Art and the first Artist in Residence for Thamesdown Borough Council in 1983. He is a Member of the Royal West of England Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Buck has completed many public commissions including ‘Embracing the Sea’ for Deal, Kent, ‘Returning to Embrace’ for Canary Wharf in London, ‘In the Swim’ for West Quay Centre, Southampton and 'Ship to Shore' for Portishead Quays. His work is regularly exhibited throughout the UK and abroad and is held in many public and private collections. His latest work has become more iconic in form, centred on the ‘making’ of sculpture and its process of casting from clay and plaster into metal.