Monty Python would have loved it. I wouldn’t be surprised if John Cleese had a hand in planning the Roche Harbor Hand Tool Carving Retreat April 20-23 on beautiful San Juan Island. Imagine walking up to an amazing Sculpture Garden where festive tents complete with waving colorful flags waited for participants. Then, close to the […]
Once upon a time, a long time ago, an unnamed stone carver completed his carving of a manly gargoyle, with a broad nose, steady gaze and leafy hair and beard – one of several gargoyles decorating the buildings in the Federal Triangle in Washington, D. C. This handsome fellow, (the gargoyle — we have […]
Sometimes you just have to sit back and allow the stone to tell you where you are needed. That was the case with ‘Dolphins at Play’. The white, Colorado marble pillar was purchased at Camp Brotherhood the summer of 2005. I had just been sewn up from an abdominal hernia, and therefore required assistance loading […]
Once in a while I’ll draw a plan for a sculpture and get excited and say, “This is it – just do it!” But the stone has its own realities. The mass and weight and stoniness of the stone ask me to relate to it directly and draw on the stone, to cut it and […]
Nightmares in the Sky by Stephen King, text, and f-stop Fitzgerald, photographs My impression of gargoyles was dramatically changed when our local librarian handed me Nightmares in the Sky. I had gone in search of pictures for inspiration in designing a logo for T-shirts for our recent hand carving workshop on San Juan Island. Our working subject […]
Editor: Nicky was previously interviewed by Barbara Lynch for the July/August 1998 issue. SN: Who are you?Nicky: My name is Nicky Oberholtzer and I am an artist and sculptor. It has taken me 53 years to say that with any authority. I have always been an artist but have only been a sculptor for 17 […]
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