ALLEN HALLETT SCULPTOR
Animals in Howick

Allen Hallett is a World renowned Wildlife Bronze Sculptor who spent many years in the wild areas of Southern Africa as a Game Ranger and laterly as a Safari Guide.  Allen's passion is portrayed in each of his unique wildlife bronze sculptures.Allen Hallett has  undertakenseveral commissions throughout Southern Africaand many of his edition pieces are in private collections throughout the world.Allen’s reputation as anwildlife artist is rapidly growing internationally.

Allen Hallett has been a bronze wildlife sculptor for the past 28 years, having been a game ranger for the Natal Parks Board, most of his time being spent in the wilderness areas of Umfolozi game reserve conducting walking trails and working on rhino capture and other reserve duties. Allen’s wildlife bronzes can be seen at various fine art galleries in South Africa. While his work centres around mainly African animals he has recently started looking more towards rare and endangered birds like, hornbills, sunbirds and also some of the endangered raptors and especially falcons. Allen is also very excited to be working with other important Wildlife Conservation organizations on various projects, including numerous endangered species. He is hoping that through his art he is able to make a meaningful contribution to preserving Africa’s Wildlife. Over the past twenty odd years Allen has been commissioned to create several works in bronze, including a red hartebeest, a blue crane for Bill Barnes, a life size Leopard for Christies of London, a lifesize leopard for the I.C.C. An amazing lifesize cheetah called Serengeti Morning for a Durban collector. One of the magnificent cheetahs was shipped to Pennsylvania in the United States to a keen collector of wildlife sculpture and especially African animals. One of the most unusual sculptures was of a lifesize ice hockey player for a Swedish client who has a vast game ranch on the Botswana Border. Allen, really enjoys commission work as it adds an extra challenge to his work. At present he is working towards creating a sculpture of a ground hornbill for the Mabula Ground Hornbill project. Allen believes that having worked with wild African animals as part of this job as a ranger has helped tremendously in turning the knowledge that he has stored into outstanding three dimensional art. To be asked to create a blue crane for Bill was therefore an absolute honour. Allen has a passion for Guinea Fowls and this can be seen in various of his works like The Royal Flush and so on.