Posts Tagged: Large Scale Sculpture

What Does That Contemporary Sculpture Mean?

“All Children are artists.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”  Pablo Picasso. The most beautiful, heartfelt pieces of artwork are often created by children;  a curvy line can be the feeling of a song, a circle filled in with yellow could be the warmth of a mother’s hug, or a squiggly… Read more »

Maquettes: The Art of The Dream

In creating large scale sculptures, or any sculpture for that matter, it all starts with a dream; the dream of turning metal into something unique, transforming a flat sheet of stainless steel into a living object.  The art of creating scultpure in a smaller sized version allows the artist to feel it, change it, look… Read more »

Spring Cleaning in the Sculpture Office

Boxes, piled high in the store room, screaming for attention.  After 33 years of stuffing items into boxes and 33 years of sculpting, it is time to purge.  What a history lesson for a sculptor!  First off, all the slides, slides, and even more slides; then, the piles, piles and even more piles of negatives. … Read more »

Contemporary Sculpture and the Moon

Speaking of inspiration for artists, nothing inspires a person like a brightly lit night with the moon spreading it’s light and enveloping the sculpture garden.  This winter it seems as if there were numerous nights that the moon was particularly bright, or, were there just more nights that the clouds opened up for us to… Read more »

Contemporary Sculpture Inspiration

Where does inspiration come from for an artist – the scenery, the people surrounding him, his meditations, nature?  Kevin Robb’s inspiration for his contemporary sculptures come from all of the above, plus everything else.  Kevin has been sculpting for over 33 years and has more sculpture ideas than will ever be able to come to fruition in… Read more »