James Castle is a Scottish sculptor and artist based in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
The majority of his work is carved in wood; there are also sculptures modelled in plaster and clay, some of which have been cast into bronze.
[1] He worked as a senior lecturer in sculpture at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham.
[1] A lot of Castle's work depicts loosely, or cryptically anthropomorphic animals.
He says: "I think one of the reasons I began to use animals as a metaphor for the human condition came from the fact that we like to bestow these creatures with the same kinds of emotions as our own, without ever really knowing what is going on... this 'one step removed' from our reality is of interest to me.