Bronze Foundry

International artist and Bronze Foundry director Jock Hildebrand has set up a unique bronze casting foundry located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Specializing in casting sculptures in bronze, the Bronze Foundry offers a dedicated service for any art project you may have. The Bronze Foundry will help you with modeling, mold-making,... casting, patination, producing metal or wood bases, wax production, as well as shipping and handling. You will find all the support, skills and facilities required to cast, fabricate and finish your work. We value every client, from beginning sculptor to internationally recognized professionals. We cast works of any size and complexity, on-time and within budget, and always with the greatest care. We take pleasure in exceeding your expectations and take personal interest in the unique vision each client brings. Servicing national and internatiional clients, we pride ourselves on our quality and competitive pricing. Proudly servicing sculptors for over a decade, we have grown to become one of Canadas leading art foundries. Bronze is a metal compound containing copper and other elements. The term bronze was originally applied to an alloy of copper containing tin, but the term is now used to describe a variety of copper-rich material, including aluminium bronze, manganese bronze, and silicon bronze. The starting place for a bronze sculpture is a positive, or original sculpture made from virtually any material (I generally use plaster or wax) from which a mold is taken. The mold will duplicate exactly, and in a negative form, the original positive. Most often I will use a silicone or rubber mold. The positive will be coated with a silicone or rubber which itself will then be coated with a hard mother mold. This will help the soft flexible mold keep its shape. Then it is removed from the positive. This mold allows many waxes, which comprises editions of bronzes to be made. The original sculpture is now used exclusively as a reference point. From the negative rubber mold, ...Read More