Martin Jennings

Martin Jennings is a sculptor whose public monuments combine bronze figures with carefully designed settings and inscriptions. After studying English at Oxford, he trained in lettering, calligraphy and stone carving. His subjects include John Betjeman at St Pancras, Philip Larkin in Hull, Charles Dickens in Portsmouth and George Orwell outside the BBC.

Other commissions include Women of Steel in Sheffield and the memorial to Mary Seacole at St Thomas' Hospital. Jennings also designed the official coinage portrait of Charles III, unveiled by the Royal Mint in 2022, adapting his work with likeness and relief to the scale of circulating money.