I realized I was well ensconced in my Blue Period when I chose, yet again, to put a blue patina on a sculpture. Something about this colour strikes me as royal, as in the fleur de lys. Other shades of blue remind me of the…
Building my first giant mermaid tail was quite the adventure! A few years ago, I completed a sculpture of the bust of the Haitian goddess Erzulie Sirène. I was tickled pink when I sold the original Hydrostone and then a Bronze to two collectors. I…
It’s been an intensive few months of work and travel, both for my consulting practice and for my sculpting. I was feeling the exhaustion this weekend. Every sculpture seems to be in the final stages of hyperactivity. There are pedestals and plinths to figure out,…
I spent most of my working life in the corporate world. I have become very skilled at what I do and find great satisfaction in helping clients get results. The people I have met along the way have been wonderful and have become my professional…
I sculpted a mask of a Buddhist Monk when I was on sabbatical in Sri Lanka, left it in the crate and forgot about it. I was looking to renew the collection of sculptures we display in our small gallery studio and thought to open…
My mother has been to most of my exhibitions, but is still puzzled as to why I am drawn to sculpting when I already lead such a busy life. During her last visit, I decided to have her witness one of the processes, and also to…
Sculpting in clay means your real work is far from over once you have sculpted your ‘masterpiece’! Your next job now is to create a mould and then cast your figure in a durable material such as cement, hydrostone, fibreglass, aluminum or bronze. Cost dictates…
Once my live model for Icarus was in the studio, it was time to take a critical look at what I had assembled on the armature from my imagination. As I compared the two figures, it became obvious to me that a body builder has a lot…
Johnny Legend, the Model Not all sculptors work from live models. Actually, I started Icarus from a picture I loved of a dancer leaping in the air. Such strength and abandon at the same time. I worked on the sculpture for some weeks and then…
