President’s Choice Award for Sculpture, “Bighorn Rendezvous”, The Brinton Museum, Big Horn, WYġst Place for 3-D Art, CO Horse Council’s “Equine Art in the Park”, Rocky Mtn. ROSETTA 2000 Fellow, National Sculpture Society, NYġ994 American Women Artists, Santa Fe, NM 1989 Society of Animal Artists, New York, NYġ989 Society of Animal Artists, New York, NYġ988 National Sculpture Society, New York, NY Fellow 2000Ģ016 Best in Show, Sculpture, Artists For Conservation Annual Exhibition, Vancouver, BC in Art, University of Delaware, Newark, DEġ967-69 Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CAĢ003 - 06 National Sculpture Society Board of Directors, New York, NYĢ001 Northwest Rendezvous Group, Helena, MT To do them justice, I must make each sculpture a treasure, a jewel, an inspiration to others to cherish these creatures as I do.ġ963-67 B.A. In my heart, I cannot understand the insensitivity of so many to the treasures we have in the animals. It is a combination of my great appreciation for the wondrous qualities of beauty, power and profound innocence that I sense in the animals, and the blending of realism and abstraction in my visual interpretations, that imbues my sculpture with these qualities. My style has been described as hard-edged yet soft, sensitive yet powerful. Though I work directly in clay without preliminary drawings, I use line, released from two dimensions into three, to express the beauty, grace and power I see in the animal form. Although I keep the animal’s basic form true to reality, it is my interpretation of that form, motion and inner spirit that is my art. They depict the life force of the animal, in all of its visual splendor, rather than a realistic depiction of outward appearances. Luckily, I also enjoy the “job” part of this career, which includes working with foundries and sub-contractors to produce the highest possible quality bronzes of my creations, and seeing to it that my sculpture is seen by as many people as possible through galleries, advertising, juried and invitational exhibitions and public placements.Īnimals have always held a special place in my heart, from a childhood where stuffed animals and animal figurines took the place of dolls, and recurring nightmares of being stalked by big cats evolved into wonder-filled dreams of friendly encounters with them, to my present love of my own cats and passion for mingling with the magnificent creatures on safari in Africa or in our own wild areas of the American West. It wasn’t until computers put an end to my successful 17-year free-lance career, designing and hand-lettering for logos and packaging in the San Francisco Bay area, that I realized that I could actually make sculpture a career.
Whether it was carving animals out of soap as a child, trying to capture the personality of my fiancée in a clay portrait while still at art school, or carving building scraps into decorative elements for the house my husband and I designed and built in a Redwood forest, sculpture has always been something I have done for the pure joy of it. I don’t consider creating sculpture to be part of my job.
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