I have agreed to teach a soapstone carving workshop through the North Vancouver Community Arts Council (NVCAC) in February 2017. The workshop is open to adults and youth and will run Tuesday evenings, Feb. 7, 14 & 21 from 7 - 9pm
I am continuing my ZBrush tutorials and am slowly getting more confident with the 3D modelling program. As I said earlier, the learning curve is steep and without a human instructor, I am finding it very difficult to get answers
I am often asked where I get my inspiration for art works. I always maintain that inspiration can come from almost anywhere, as it is a rare moment when an artist's radar is turned off. I have completed an abstract
I attended the Northwest Stone Sculptors Association's Oregon symposium which was held at Camp Sisters on Suttle Lake situated on the east side of the Cascade Mountain range. The location was brand new for the Assoc. this year, having had to move from the Silver Falls location of two decades. The new location is lovely, with generous and attentive staff and a carving field among tall evergreens. Suttle Lake is just steps away, with swimming, canoeing and kayaking available.
I was invited to join this group of mostly Oregon stone carvers as a guest instructor. I gave an evening slide presentation, introducing myself and my work and acted as a mentor on
Michael Binkley has sculpted a female nude under a full length veil. Titled "Adrift in Veiled Gesture," this is another in Binkley's exploration into marble sculpture that has the illusion of a naked figure covered by thin fabric, like linen. Carved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQUhb_yKJ8k Michelle and I deaccessioned a marble female nude sculpture in our sculpture garden. I carved the piece, titled "Enya," in 1988 for the opening of one of my exhibitions. "Enya" is carved from calacatta marble, which is quarried at Carrara,
My friends, George Pratt and Andrew Pothier and I presented "Vancouver Spring" again and our intensive stone carving instruction course was another success. We held the event on the premises of Pothier Enterprises Ltd., in Delta, BC, Canada from May
As we say goodbye to the Winter season and hello to Spring, I thought it would be fun to share two shots of one of my sculptures under a dusting of the only snow of the past season. The photos
I was commissioned to carve two retirement gift sculptures for personnel at the Maine, USA subsidiary plant of a local Vancouver paper company. The soaring eagle sculpture went to the retiring plant general manager and the subject was chosen as often
My sculpture, "Look to the Horizon" was the inspiration for a Valentine's Day event held beside it in Yanghu Wetland Park, Changsha, Hunan, China this past weekend. Couples were invited to stand back to back, imitating my sculpture of a female