Great pic Martin! I'm just reviewing ArtsAPS blogs and thought I would drop you a note. I will check back when you've had a chance to add more to your blog. Enjoy your holiday! Raymond Assistant director, ArtsAPS P.S. To put yourself in complete charge of the security of your ArtsAPS blog, got to: http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?answer=42673&cbid=-bdakh7t99a0s&src=cb&lev=answer There you will find out how to control who can and can not see your blog and answers to other privacy/security concerns.
Carving and modeling is my key to the secret world, my way through the rabbit (Adanko) hole, my creative looking glass. Subtracting and additive sculpture started it. As a child the process of transforming wood or clay into sculpture has struck me as magical. And over the years that magical process has had its way with me leading me from hobby to art. Sculpting and painting fills me with a sense of accomplishment and integrity, and has proven a most amendable vehicle for translating my inner feelings to the outside world.
My carvings are based on what the wood or log suggest. I see the design imprisoned in the log. Though I work quite deliberately, consciously applying both traditional and conventional methods, my subconscious and instinct is the undisputed creator in me.
The concrete, subtractive and additive nature of sculpture frees my imagination and provides creative opportunities for happy accidents and grace to influence the finished product.
Most of my works developed out of initial sketches and went through the stages of painting and miniature clay works before ending up in wood or cement. My dream for the future is to replace all outdoor sculpture and fountains in various houses with unique custom made pieces at an affordable price, instead of the usual on the market cast works we see around.
Title of the painting is "Double M (MM) fluters" a gift to Austell Presbyterian Church Youth group for fund rasing auction
ReplyDeleteGreat pic Martin! I'm just reviewing ArtsAPS blogs and thought I would drop you a note. I will check back when you've had a chance to add more to your blog.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your holiday!
Raymond
Assistant director, ArtsAPS
P.S.
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Artist Self Reflection
ReplyDeleteCarving and modeling is my key to the secret world, my way through the rabbit (Adanko) hole, my creative looking glass.
Subtracting and additive sculpture started it. As a child the process of transforming wood or clay into sculpture has struck me as magical. And over the years that magical process has had its way with me leading me from hobby to art. Sculpting and painting fills me with a sense of accomplishment and integrity, and has proven a most amendable vehicle for translating my inner feelings to the outside world.
My carvings are based on what the wood or log suggest. I see the design imprisoned in the log. Though I work quite deliberately, consciously applying both traditional and conventional methods, my subconscious and instinct is the undisputed creator in me.
The concrete, subtractive and additive nature of sculpture frees my imagination and provides creative opportunities for happy accidents and grace to influence the finished product.
Most of my works developed out of initial sketches and went through the stages of painting and miniature clay works before ending up in wood or cement. My dream for the future is to replace all outdoor sculpture and fountains in various houses with unique custom made pieces at an affordable price, instead of the usual on the market cast works we see around.
Martin Mensah
Adanko Studio