Sioban Coppinger

Coppinger was born in Canada, and studied at the Bath Academy of Art in England from 1974 to 1977, gaining an honours degree.

[1][2][3] Her works include the following: "The Gardener and Truant Lion" is in Station Road, Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire.

The work was afterwards loaned to the Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival of 1986, and then was permanently sited at Stoke Mandeville railway station.

There are two L-shaped hedges; on a bench in the corner of one of them, a statue of an elderly man is seated, with a beekeeper's hat and gloves next to him.

The figure was modelled on a friend of the sculptor who could exude calm when others were stressed.