Galerie d'Avignon

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The process of working a concept into 3 dimensional reality is intriguing and challenging. Many steps are involved from the initial maquette, in which the thought is roughed out in wax, to the final full size bronze . The care and attention to detail that I put into gating and shelling the wax, melting and pouring the bronze, finishing and patinating the sculpture, accumulates and resides in the finished work. This creative process combining technical and artistic challenge is exciting and ultimately fulfilling. The head has been the central visual theme in my work for the past five years. My representation of the head is non-specific as to gender, time, colour or creed. As an object of contemplation it functions as a mirror of the viewers’ experience reflecting and evoking conscious and subconscious memories, thoughts and feelings. This series dwells on the positive and moves from the inward looking contemplative head to heads in communication.

Né / Born
1946, Ottawa, Ontario

Éducation / Education
1971 Master of Fine Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1969 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Mt. Allison University, Sackville, N.