By Lane Tompkins Sometimes trying something new doesn’t always turn out well, so moving the Oregon Symposium from our much loved Silver Falls State Park to a new location caused us more than a little apprehension. We were told that Suttle Lake on the edge of the Cascades in Central Oregon was lovely. We were […]
I carved Storyteller last summer for our local studio tour. The basalt column is ten feet tall and weighs 4500 pounds. My goal was to capture the free form fluidity of line drawing in the stone and to express that energy in the final outcome. I started by quickly drawing hundreds of lines on each […]
In the late 1990’s I made a brief foray into stone carving via Meredith Earls. I was entranced by stone, but other priorities put carving on hold. This past winter I finally circled back, taking Sabah’s stone carving class at Pratt. Camp B seemed like a great way to continue that growth, to immerse myself […]
I really had no clue what to expect. Sharli Silva, a friend who had gone to Cambria where she heard about Camp B from Gudrun Ongman, talked me into it with her rave reviews of Cambria and that Camp B was supposed to be even better!I am new to art…this right brain, thing. And being […]
Every First Thursday, Seattle’s primary Art Walk takes place among the Pioneer Square galleries surrounding Occidental Park in Seattle. This September 3rd-5th, NWSSA set up a sculpture show in the park to place their art in the path of the hundreds of art lovers who come every month to this Art Walk. Twelve of our […]
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