I have always been intrigued by how our emotional nature is expressed in our facial countenance and our body language. My desire was to capture this myriad changing state of the human condition in my art. The work itself is not based upon models, photographs, or any actual persons. Rather, I sculpt from memory and from my own emotional state at the time of creation. Some of these sculptures express a calm, almost beatific, state. Others, displaying extreme disturbance and anguish, are clearly at the opposite end of the spectrum. All of this work has been executed in clay. Molds have been made of many of the pieces so they are available in either cast stone or bronze. The cast stone pieces are covered with a bronze coating that is finished so it is indistinguishable from a bronze casting. In either case, the final work has the look and feel of a traditional bronze sculpture, but with a modern sensibility. The goal of my figurative work is to both show how the inner condition is expressed by the outward form and to convey that this expression transcends time and history.
“Ariadne”
“Falling Woman of Versailles”
“Anguished Man with Broken Nose”
“Silence”
