I’m proud to announce that three of my pieces, The Yeoman, The King’s Dwarf, and Wood Sprite have been accepted into the 5x5x5 show at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, AL. The juror is Adrienne Callander (Assistant Professor of Art Entrepreneurship in New College at the University of Alabama). The Yeoman and The King’s Dwarf are part of my Medieval Series (hand built,one of a kind raku fired paper clay) and Wood Sprite is part of the Mythological Creatures Series.
Sand Hills is a hand built free standing ceramic sculpture that, using texturing and oxide stains, seeks to depict the layered and wind carved sandstone formations of the American West. 12 1/2″ x 10″ x 6″.
Throughout history men have sought to achieve immortality by erecting monuments in their own likeness only to have time erode the memories and the weather wear away the likenesses. Memories of Forgotten Kings, a hand built and glazed paper clay sculpture is my reflection on this on going process. 14″ X 6″.
In Greek mythology Narcissus was a young man who became so enamored of his own image reflected in a pool that he lost interest in everything else, and died looking at himself. The Pool of Narcissus is a found object/recycled material sculpture. Narcissus is a broken wheel, the pool is a scrap of cherry wood, and the reflection is cut from a broken mirror. If you choose, and look carefully, you can see a reflection in the pool. 7 ¼” x 3 ¼’ x 5 ¼’ $275.00
Moses Warms His Hands, a mixed media sculpture, is the third piece of the WHOLLY MOSES! set. Consisting of hand-built, raku-fired ceramics and a polychromatic deadwood pruning. It was inspired by Exodus 3:3, the time in the narrative when Moses is investigating the burning bush but before the Lord has spoken to him.
Moses Brings Down The Law is a hand-built, raku-fired sculpture which is the second piece in the WHOLLY MOSES! set. Inspired by Exodus 19:25, 20:1-17. 6.5” x 3” x 5”
Moses Parts the Sea: Epilogue is a mixed media sculpture which takes its inspiration from Exodus 14:21-29. Consisting of hand-built, raku-fired ceramics, plastic, and wood, it is one of three pieces in the lighthearted and perhaps slightly irreverent WHOLLY MOSES! set. 6” x 6” x 9”
The inspiration for The Last Druid was the 1774 painting The Bard by Thomas Jones, which is in Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales) but which I was fortunate to see while it was on exhibition at the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh. The Welsh believed the Bards to be descendants of the Celtic druids. As in The Bard, I have posed a solitary figure at the edge of a jagged cliff. My depiction in The Last Druid is cloaked in a mantle of greenery, tying him to his natural world. Hand built unglazed ceramic, set on gneiss. No adhesive is used.
10” x 6” x 10”
Elijah and the Broom Tree, inspired by 1 Kings 19:4-8 is a polychromatic hand built/found object mixed media sculpture composed of raku fired paper clay with multiple glazes set on Wissahickon schist and with a deadwood pruning of American dogwood. No adhesive is used. (20.5” H x 18” W x12.5” D)
John Fansmith 