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FROM GEORGE PRATTA few simple tips. Choosing a proper base for your sculpture is a bit like choosing accents for the furniture in a room. Few people have a problem with that, and they should approach choosing a sculpture base with the same judgment. If the sculpture is sharp and angular, make the base soft […]
Lauding a sculpture by Arliss Newcomb I’ve said it before in these pages—there have been many sculptures produced by myfriends/colleagues in NWSSA whence I could justly apply the title line and eventually I’ll write ‘Wish I had dunnits’ about them —but my current infatuation is this captivating owl by everybody’s friend, dear Arliss. She found […]
George Pratt Pats Michael Binkley On The Back . . . There have been many sculptures produced by my friends/colleagues in NWSSA whence I could happily apply the title line, but my current envy trip is this remarkable piece of Michael’s. He aptly has entitled it ‘Making Space’. I’ve visited it twice now in his […]
George, they said, we need a granite frog for Haller Park. Frog? Hmmmm. Yeah, I guess that’s my thing, I said. So it was that for three of the harshest months in memory, I crouched shivering in a cloud of dust over a granite block that had langished in my yard for twelve years, chips […]
To guide sculptors who would wish to have work executed in China, here is an outline of a current project, the problems with local production, the Chinese option and the result. In 2007 I had the good fortune to be awarded my third public art commission for a new edifice in the City of Burnaby, […]
Here’s a preview of my jade piece, Emperor’s Sunrise, having just been installed at the BC/Canada Olympics Pavilion on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The stunning cedar works are only a small part of what is showcased inside. It was all fabricated here in Vancouver and shipped over there to be put together like a bunch of Leg-O’s. […]
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