Lynn Chadwick was first invited to experiment with silver as a metal by the Danish Silversmith Hans Hansen in the 1970's alongside fellow sculptors Henry Moore, Kenneth Armitage and Barbara Hepworth. Chadwick enjoyed using silver so much that he used it throughout the rest of his career and particularly enjoyed the way that silver reflected the light.

The couple has been an enduring subject throughout Lynn Chadwick’s long and productive career. After spending twenty years distorting figures to become abstracted pyramids supported on spiky legs, the Seventies saw Chadwick return to the figure un-ambiguously and progressively adopted the triangle and the square head as a shorthand device for the symbolisation of the male and female as seen in Maquette IV Walking Cloaked Figures.