Edmonds Art Studio Tour is this weekend, September 19-20. Due to the pandemic, it is online this year. Click here to view the ONLINE TOUR.
Pre-register to attend my Zoom session to be held at 4 pm on Saturday, in which I will be presenting my current work, sculpting from a live model, two new sculptures going through the foundry process and also learn how clay sculptures are transformed into bronze. Click to PRE-REGISTER for my 30 minute Zoom session on Saturday.
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The gallery has a new owner, Eric Brown, and he has agreed to represent my 
Titled Hearts Uplifted, it captures a fleeting moment of closeness–their intimate gaze speaks to a connection that transcends time. The sculpture is now at the foundry and is to be cast in bronze. It is a vision of embracing joy.
I recently received a text message from an art collector who had bought one of my sculptures last May, Back then, at his request, I had installed the sculpture, Joie de Vivre, on his rock wall that borders the street. He was delighted with it. The installation had been a real logistical challenge since the sculpture weighs 150# and needed to be anchored on top of a 4 foot high stone column. Everything was hunky dory until last week when I got a text from him saying that the wall had just been hit by a car. Turns out that a dude in a stolen car was being chased by police, lost control of his car and plowed through the wall at 3 am, pushing the entire wall off its footer. 
I stopped by the site and was amazed at the destruction! 
There was some damage to the sculpture’s right arm and hand that is going to require removing her and taking her to the foundry for repairs. I guess the guys and I did a hell of a job mounting the sculpture given that the sculpture remained anchored to the stone column–in spite of the impact!
This was the SECOND time that the property owner’s wall had been taken out by a car crashing into it! I had been asked to install the sculpture after the wall was rebuilt following the first crash, which was about 3 years ago. That car was driven by a 16 year old girl who did not survive the crash, partly because her car went further down the ridge into the trees and caught fire before responders could rescue her. I will end this tale with what the property owner then texted me later. Turns out that the mother of the girl who had died in the previous crash lives nearby and was touched last spring when she saw that a sculpture of a little girl had been installed at the site of her daughter’s death. She told the property owner that, each time she drove by after the sculpture was installed, she saw it as the joyful spirit of her daughter. Needless to say, the mother found it distressing to see the sculpture down! As did I. While the wall is being reconstructed, Joie de Vivre will be repaired at the foundry and then re-installed.
Depicted in the sculpture is a male figure seen powerfully lunging forward. We see him mid-step as he thrusts his body into the unknown. In this image, I chose to render an image of a male charging headlong, but with his upper body twisting away, suggesting a change of heart. What I find intriguing is the tension between the male default of seeking to be in control and his recognition that, at times, he must let go. 
The sense of possibility is palpable. It’s then that our heart leaps and our life-force dances. 