Award winning Dorset based Moira Purver is an elected full member of the Society of Women Artists and a trustee of Purbeck Art Weeks. She is a figurative sculptor working largely from life to capture the essence of warmth, vitality and movement in the human form. "Although a large part of my work involves portraying the softness of the female form, I have also completed several male sculptures using stronger muscle tone and texture," says Moira, who received an award for her sculpture 'Male Torso' at the Society of Women Artists Open Exhibition in 2010. Moira exhibits at the Mall Galleries with the SWA and the Royal Society of British Artists (2014, 2015). Her life size sculpture 'Self-Contained Man' was included in the Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition in 2014. Her sculpture 'Roe Fawn' has been shortlisted and selected for the David Shepherd Wild Life Artist of the Year 2015 exhibition in the Mall Galleries in London. She exhibits throughout the UK and with the RHS to name but a few. As a trustee of the Purbeck Art Weeks Festival (PAW) Moira opens her studio for two weeks every year as part of PAW (May 23 to June 7, 2015).