One of my collectors approached me to make a different base for a sculpture she had purchased from me years ago. In 1996, she and her husband bought “Ursula,” a white marble figurative sculpture, at that spring’s Sculpture in the Garden
This past summer, I finally tackled the remaining part of a large block of Italian travertine that I brought back from Pietrasanta several years ago. This has been a challenging season for me, as the Canadian Federal government is building a
I will be participating in a group exhibition called Uncovered which will be held at the CityScape Art Space Gallery. The gallery is operated by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council is open Mondays to Saturdays from 10am to 5pm. I’m
This is #5 from Kit White’s 101 Things to Learn in Art School. “The medium is the artwork’s first identity. It is secondarily about what it depicts.” This is very relevant to my sculpture. One of the first aspects that a
Ever since I witnessed some mortuary sculpture in one of Berlin, Germany’s oldest cemeteries years ago, I have been fascinated with how stone sculptors can depict the human form seemingly revealed under drapery. I’ve experimented with this subject by carving a
After 17 years, “Coy Glance” has finally found a home. Sometimes an artist has to wait a while before the right patron comes along. I carved the sculpture in 1995 and Peter Bentley, then President and CEO of Canfor Corp., unveiled
I have long been inspired by photographers of the nude, and one in particular is Howard Schatz. He produced a collection of photos called “Body Knots” and this is where I took inspiration for this sculpture, “Bodyknot - Yin Yang”. This