Looking for something to do, I found the world of stone at Marenakos’ StoneFest 2011. I have done other artistic endeavors in my life but not sculpture and never stone as a medium. John Fisher was the carving instructor that year and those of you who know him can understand that I was hooked by […]
Ten years ago, I found a remarkable piece of what I dubbed ‘Malaspina Blue Granite’ right here on my own property i.e., very close to Secret Cove on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast. Over the years I have carved some handsome sculptures from it, exploiting the numerous white quartz veins throughout to create ring-necked birds; see […]
“We don’t make mistakes, we just make happy accidents.” – Bob Ross Every writer at some point will experience writer’s block. Carvers too can have the experience of feeling as though they have come to a creative dead end. Sometimes facing a new stone is all it takes. Unless we have A Plan. Often we carve […]
Letter from the Editors Larry Lawlor is from North Bend, Washington, a little town squeezed in between Interstate 90 and the base of 4,000 foot Mount Teneriffe. Though we have happily welcomed Larry at both the Oregon and the Washington symposiums, this is his first time to be featured in Sculpture NorthWest. Though relatively new […]
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