sculpture at mariani

My original sculpture in paper was slightly modified and reduced

got dipped in wax and was worked on, days of refining the surface. This is work in progress and not quite the same viewpoint. 

 and then eventually transformed into bronze

bamboo

Just before I came to Italy

I was cutting up some bamboo, still green, so I could cut differently than just straight up and down, diagonally for example.
I arrive in Italy and I find bamboo growing everywhere, this lot in the garden attached to the flat

and when I get the the foundry I find it is used as runners which allows the molten bronze to get to all parts of the sculpture.

an ample bosom

I spent Sunday pottering around Pisa and found this extraordinary building, the Superiore University on the Piazza dei Cavalieri. On closer inspection the bosoms were rather more ample than I expected, for men and women.

and then we found this......

pietrasanta and the dentist

I was dentally challenged last night and needed to see a dentist with some urgency. This was arranged really fast this morning and I was delivered to the dental surgery at noon. I thought I was in the wrong place but no, the waiting room really is a sculpture gallery and it is the only dentist waiting room where the reading matter is .........sculpture catalogues

Pietrasanta the first

Day 1 in Pietrasanta and I have made a start on a small sculpture. Tomorrow is a bank holiday so the foundry is closed

Mariani foundry 

The view from my flat

update for Anguilla

http://www.anguillasculpturesymposium.org/blog/
Thanks to the amazing Kevin Sharp and his camera and the indefatigable Walter Bayer who set up the symposium, there are some great photos on the updated website for the first Anguilla Sculpture Symposium. I miss that place.

moving in high society part 2

I have deleted the original post with this fine offer from the First Lady as it wasn't displaying correctly, so here in all it's fine generosity, is the offer I have been made. Very magnanimous and bountiful as you can see and will keep myself and many other impoverished artists above the bread line for quite some time. I shall decline reluctantly.


Happy new year dear and how are you doing ? I am Mrs.Michelle Obama and I am written to inform you about your Bank Check Draft brought by United Embassy from the government of Benin Republic to the white house Washington DC and has been mandated to be deliver to your address on Saturday being January 9th 2016 as soon as you get

back to me with your

Home address:.............................
City:...................................
Phone number.........................

You check is containing the sum of $10 million USD.

Mrs.Michelle Obama.
First Lady