I took some time out from my (small) sculpture project for the National Maritime Museum Cornwall to make a separate proposal for a large piece to be permanently placed in the museum exhibition space.
maquette for large sculpture
In the flooded Lake District, Cumbria, England right now. Steve asked if I am constantly thinking about new sculptures since I am currently involved in my major sculpture project for the national maritime museum Cornwall. It made me wonder why my answer was no
Peter Randal-Page’s sculpture, Derwent Water
The last 10 days or so have seen me make good progress on the coracle theme and at the same time begin a sixth sculpture.
Yesterday I rescued sculpture number 3 from outside the museum workshop and brought it inside. I learnt two things about its origins.
The rain soaked sculpture with a couple of large wine corks glued in place
It’s been a week of four quarters. Some carving outside which was stopped by the rain, some mundane sanding inside which was stopped by boredom, a little tourism to see the mermaid of Zennor and finally some thinking about sculpture number 4.
It’s getting better all the time. Yes, a good day’s carving today. I have circumnavigated the rot, if you’ll excuse the nautical terminology!
OK here goes. It’s been a while since I last wrote but I’ve been busy all the same. My sculpting activities have been very repetitive and sometimes tedious but I am getting to the end of a stage. So much so that I’ve decided to start thinking about a third sculpture.
I’m calling this the roller coaster. I made it this week as one of the many steps towards constructing my skeleton sculpture.
Had a bit of fun on my Fine Art course by fabricating an interview with a mythical art magazine. This was written some time ago. Some of the opinions I still hold about art in general. Some I’ve changed my mind about.
Bee (2009)
Spent another day in the workshop working on the details of the first two sculptures.
Just needed to return to my favourite architects today.
Frank Gehry’s fish building in Barcelona
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