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By Michael Binkley
In the spring of 2009, I received an email from a gentleman who wanted me to carve three Moai sculptures for the house he was building in Whistler, BC, Canada. We agreed I would carve them six feet tall and from locally quarried Hardy Island grey granite.
by Michael Binkley For 34 years, I was a sculptor who worked exclusively as a direct subtractive carver, meaning I did not create a model of my composition and then copy it to stone. I’ve been inspired by the shape of a stone, its colours and patterning to create a sculpture. Each of my sculptures […]
Ed: In this final episode of Michael and Michele’s trip to Pietrasanta, we will hear and see about his commission carvings and what it was like to live and work in Italy. Thanks, Michael, for sharing your story. I was a bit of an odd ball at the studio. Most tourist sculptors who travel to […]
My inspiration to turn my artistic talents toward stone sculpture started in 1980 when I saw Michelangelo’s unfinished “Slaves” in the Accademia in Florence, Italy. Since then, I have always wanted to return to the country of my epiphany to carve marble in a traditional studio. Through reading in Sculpture NorthWest of past adventures of […]
The hosts of the 5th Annual Vancouver Island Stone Sculptor’s Symposium on Thetis Island, B.C., served up another helping of great fall weather. This was the second year that the Symposium was held at Camp Columbia, right next door to organizers Simone and Peter Weber-Luckham. The sun shone warmly for the five day event, Sept. […]
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