• Dark almost black carved spherical sculpture
  • tall wooden sculpture on top of hill over looking view
  • five sculptures infront of bright window
  • White sculpture in front of window
  • two large standing sculptures in garden
  • dark bowl shaped sculpture on wood window sill
  • white tear shaped sculpture in front of window
  • white carved structure in ribbon shaped
  • orange spherical sculpture on window ledge
  • cream sculpture near window
  • Sculpture on oak table
  • pointed white sculpture with black background
  • two sculptures, one brown and one cream facing each other in an exhibition
  • Vintage staircase with sculpture on plinth

Halima Cassell: Artist & Sculptor

Halima’s work fuses bold geometric forms, recurring patterns, and architectural principles to explore a universal language of number and evoke a disquieting sense of movement. She employs definite lines and dramatic angles, carving into thick surfaces or solid forms to achieve depth and intensity.

Focusing on simple base shapes allows her to amplify the visual impact of intricate surface patterns and striking contours. This interplay generates the dynamic energy and compelling drama that define her distinctive style.

Over time, Halima has expanded her practice across a range of materials—from her first love, clay, to stone, glass, wood, and concrete. Each material presents unique challenges and possibilities, enriching the creative process. Yet a consistent stylistic thread runs through her work. Whether large or small, each hand-carved sculpture is a bespoke piece, made for both indoor and outdoor spaces.

 

 

  • She was sketching constantly and continually sought to transpose her drawings into sculptural forms. The surface as well as the shapes emerged together in sculpture which often combined enormous complexity with simplicity and unity.
    – Helaine Blumenfeld OBE FRBS Dlitt

  • Her main preoccupation and sculptural impulse is to penetrate beneath the skin of the form to reveal the structure within – the crystalline seed of the stone, or the skeleton-like armature she perceives within the clay. She does not carve exteriors but reveals interiors – the folded abstract inner landscapes of her singular and highly imaginative vision.
    – Andrew Lambirth, Art Critic - Spectator Magazine

  • While working, Cassell becomes deeply involved in each piece to the point where she is unaware of her surroundings even watching her work on a piece for a few minutes, it is obvious that the process commands all her attention
    – Emmanuel Cooper

  • Her signature material is clay, which she moulds and carves with natural authority and no little dexterity. Her crisply cut and satisfying forms live on in the mind… She is a force of nature.
    – Andrew Lambirth, Art Critic - Spectator Magazine

  • Her profound understanding of the geometric rules governing any given pattern, allow her to bend, or even break them.
    – Peter Randell-Page, Sculptor

  • Cassell’s work encompasses and generates complexity and surprise. All of her sculptural work shares a language of geometry and volume but each is intriguingly different
    – Elli Herring

  • The most inspiring ceramic work I have seen in thirty years! Beautiful, mesmerising, powerful and thoughtful. Genius! Love, love, love this work.
    – Judith Ramsgate, 53 years old

  • I love this artist’s work. How she keeps her molten flowing themes through different media – stone, concrete, wood and even glass. Long to touch them. What a unique eye and hand she has. Wonderful.
    – Maureen Lepman

  • …Although Cassell is creating in different media – and respecting the unique characteristics of her material while doing so – she is also intent on discerning just how bronze, glass, marble and clay can ‘speak the same language
    – Ian Wilson

  • I find her work uplifting, I would never consider buying it solely as an investment
    – Eric Knowles (Ceramics Expert)