A V A I L A B L E S
STONE
My approach to stone is intuitive. I prefer to take a large block of stone, draw a series of lines on it, and begin sawing and breaking away with a hammer and chisel, to remove the excess stone. Once the form is roughed out, grinders and sanders define the piece. I can rough out a sculpture in relatively short time. The hand finishing and refining of the piece, however, takes approximately three times as long as the rough cutting. This process is very intuitive permitting the stone to lead the process and
reveal its form. On the other hand, imposing a pre-conceived concept on the stone, as in a horse, makes the sculpting more work and less play than intuitive sculpting.
My approach to stone is intuitive. I prefer to take a large block of stone, draw a series of lines on it, and begin sawing and breaking away with a hammer and chisel, to remove the excess stone. Once the form is roughed out, grinders and sanders define the piece. I can rough out a sculpture in relatively short time. The hand finishing and refining of the piece, however, takes approximately three times as long as the rough cutting. This process is very intuitive permitting the stone to lead the process and
reveal its form. On the other hand, imposing a pre-conceived concept on the stone, as in a horse, makes the sculpting more work and less play than intuitive sculpting.
Ishtar / Italian Marble / Nineteen Inches High
Anticipation / Italian Soapstone / Sixteen Inches High
Gyro / Italian Marble / Sixteen Inches High
Piscene / Italian Soapstone / Thirteen Inches High
Black Birds of Happiness / Tennessee Marble / Eighteen Inches High
Jurassic / Kentucky Palisades Marble / Twenty Inches Wide
Rose Aura / Colorado Alabaster / Ten Inches High
Wishing Stone / Tennessee Marble / Forty Inches High
Spice / Kentucky Marble / Sixteen Inches High
Freyr / Portuguese Marble / Sixty Inches High
Blanca / Alabama Marble / Thirteen Inches High
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Binarius / Italian Soapstone / Eighteen Inches High
Perpetual / Colorado Alabaster / Twenty Inches High
Behold / Texas Limestone / Twenty-Four Inches High
Circle of Friends / Montana Soapstone / Fifteen Inches Wide
Karma / Minnesota Limestone / Twenty-Four Inch Cube
Stalwart / Colorado Marble / Thirty-Six Inches Wide
Going to Market / Italian Alabaster / Eighteen Inches High
Moon Maiden / Tennessee Marble / Sixteen Inches High
Fish Wife / Tennessee Marble / Sixty Inches High
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BRONZES
In 2009 a serious accident prevented me from carving for a year. In that time, I began having bronzes made of some of my original stone sculptures. The multi-stepped process is performed at a foundry. My six smaller works produced to date are cast in an edition of nine. These works can each be enlarged to any size. To date, my first large bronze was created in a foundry in Joseph, Oregon, and shipped to the installation site at Maker’s Mark Distillery in Loretta, Kentucky. Many times the beautiful patinas applied by the patineer at the foundry are mistaken as stone pieces. I am moving to bronze with large commissions since it is no longer safe for me to be hanging off scaffolding working on a twenty ton stone project.
Repose / Bronze Edition of Nine / Seventeen Inches Wide
Back to Back / Bronze Edition of Nine / Twenty-Two Inches High
Bolt / Bronze Edition of Nine / Twenty Inches Wide
Fallen Angel / Bronze Edition of Nine / Eighteen Inches High
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Out of Africa / Bronze Edition of Nine / Twenty Inches Wide
Healing Hands (Angle A) / Bronze Edition of 9 / Thirteen Inches High
Healing Hands (Angle B) / Bronze Edition of 9 / Thirteen Inches High
Healing Hands (Angle C) / Bronze Edition of 9 / Thirteen Inches High
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STONE DRAWINGS
To create the stone drawings, I apply a heavy rubber to the stone. I draw lines on the rubber creating a design. With a sharp blade, I cut along the lines and remove the rubber surrounding the cuts. The flora and fauna figures remain covering the stone. Once the piece is heavily sandblasted the whimsical forms remaining under the rubber are shiny and polished and contrast to the sandblasted background.
Running with the Wind / Zimbabwe Granite / Thirty-Six Inches High / Disc is Thirty-six Inches Diameter / Granite Wrought Iron Table by David Shadwick
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Running with the Wind / Zimbabwe Granite / Thirty-Six Inches Diameter on a Wrought Iron Easel
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