Dalwood was born in Bristol in 1924 and studied at the Bath Academy of Art. He was one of the first sculptors to have his work cast in aluminium, as here, and it was his preferred material for years. Dalwood wrote of Blue Temple that he was 'influenced by ideas about architecture and landscape and clouds. Perhaps the actual clues to it are the Battersea Power Station and the [Doric] temple of Segesta in Sicily, but the influences are never directly incorporated in the work' (letter from the artist 12 May 1975).