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This is Kraken at 60 grit. I’ll bring it up to 220 grit and then seal. Kraken is meant to hang on a wall or on a post — or potentially on a tree.

Above this encaustic of sea foam hovers a hammered wire pounded and bent to the shape of an Orca song. This is one of a new series of Whale Song encaustics I’m working on.

Tower is limestone with iron oxide on a limestone base.

Here are some photos of my sculpture Flight, basalt on a base of Tonino sandstone.  (I retitled the piece; it is referred to elsewhere on the site as “Lens – Energy”.)  The clients purchased it at Matzke Sculpture Park, and I installed it at the client’s home yesterday.

Here is the final piece.  The exterior of the alabaster is (with a few small exceptions) as I found it.  I sculpted the inside of the rock rather than the outside, something that one rarely sees.  The title refers to the softness inside all of us, underneath our often-gruff exteriors.

The base is black granite, 9″ square by 1.5″ deep.  Softness is 27″ tall, and approximately 1′ wide by 1′ deep, although the dimensions vary substantially, of course.

Here is a photo of a work in progress I call The Softness Inside Us.  I have left the outside of the stone completely (well, almost completely) untouched, and am opening up only the inside.  The wooden base on which it sits is of course temporary.

This photograph is of a work in progress, made from alabaster, a translucent stone given to me by sculptor Tom Small (http://www.tomsmallsculpture.com/) upon the completion of my studio several years ago. I knew upon looking at the original rock that I wanted it to become an owl-like figure, but it wasn’t until I began this most recent series of hollow figures that I recognized the form I wanted. The figure is presented here is a different component of a bird of prey — that of a mother protecting its egg (also made from translucent alabaster).

This is a work in progress of what is to be the third sculpture in my Bird of Prey series. With this and the next few sculptures in this series, I’m experimenting with a new approach for me, that of a hollowed form. By manipulating the opening into the form, I’m able to convey different ideas about the form to the viewer. Bird of Prey III is being crafted from chlorite, the same stone I used for Bird of Prey I.

Welcome. You are looking at a complete redesign of my website by Anne Francis, which includes many sculptures not shown on my old site. I stopped adding new photographs because I had to hire a web expert each time I added content. Anne’s design allows me to revise the site myself. Her design includes this blog, by which I intend to introduce you to new work as I create it, on occasion from uncut stone to the final image. I also will use this blog as a forum to discuss art-related issues, from how to be creative to how my art is responding to the current politics.

Here are images of my newest sculpture as a work in progress, made of translucent alabaster. Most of the form is now complete, and it is sanded to 220 grit. I have a lot of sanding yet to do on it, but it is nearing completion after more than 60 hours.