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
I traveled to Sidney, on Vancouver Island to make an alteration to one of my granite abstract sculptures. A pair of my long-time collectors has moved to Sidney to a beautiful waterfront home and they wanted "Logical Drift" mounted onto
Michelle and I have freshly returned from our adventure in Changsha, China. On November 11, I attended the Remembrance Day services hosted by the Burrard Yacht Club held at Roche Point in Cates Park / Whey-ah-Wichen. This is where Canada's first
Last week, I led a workshop on carving limestone at the Sorrento Centre, in the Shuswap region of BC. The annual event is hosted by the Shuswap School of Carving and Arts, which is a group of wood carvers that get
I will be leading a workshop at the BC Carving School in Sorrento, BC, September 22 - 27, 2013. I was invited last fall and accepted the opportunity, though it was contingent on getting at least seven participants. We have
I have written several posts on why I feel civic Public Art Programs are a farce. I call the series, The Fallacy of Public Art, and there is Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Here, I illustrate four examples of
I will be participating in the third annual North Shore Art Crawl April 20 & 21, 2013 11:00am - 5:pm daily Binkley Sculpture Studios 535 East First Street North Vancouver, BC, Canada 604-984-8574 info@michaelbinkey.com I’ve created a new collection of small original stone sculptures in a variety of
I am currently in Longview, Alberta, Canada looking after my parent’s house and animals while they are away on their annual ski holiday. Longview is situated in the heart of Canadian cattle country in the Foothills of Alberta. This is
In 1987, a new stone was brought to the attention of my colleague, Babe Gunn in Port Alberni, BC, Canada. A logging truck driver dropped a piece off to her to try. He said he’d picked it up on one
All last fall, people were talking about how the winter of 2011/2012 was going to be one of the coldest and snowiest for Vancouver, Canada. As we are at the end of February, still without Vancouver’s classic one last cold