Percival Plinth Project

Material: Bronze

About the Artist: I have always been involved in art. I feel most at home when working with my hands. Combining this love for the tactile with a need to express myself led me to sculpture. From the beginning I was fascinated by the human form, and the patterns that two or more figures can create. The practice of interpreting ideas, forms and events and presenting them in three dimensions is my work and joy. I try not to “over think” the process, and instead believe that just making it is enough.

Contact: 360.753.3103 | perlestudios@hotmail.com

Material: Bronze

Material: Bronze

Material: Recycled Found Objects

About the Artist: All my sculpture pieces are made from cast off materials and recycled into various depictions of everyday life, birds, animals, and human. This offerings are no exception; the butterfly and flower are also made of horseshoes mainly and heavy duty springs make up its body.

Contact: oldgeezerbooks.com

Material: Recycled Found Objects

About the Artist: All my sculpture pieces are made from cast off materials and recycled into various depictions of everyday life, birds, animals, and human. This offerings are no exception; the butterfly and flower are also made of horseshoes mainly and heavy duty springs make up its body.

Contact: oldgeezerbooks.com

Material: Steel

About the Artist: Art is an endless thing… It’s delightful struggle to keep up.
I go to my studio. I do art. It’s my song. Sometimes I compose, sometimes I just sing. It’s personal; an inquiry; an exploration – its life. I come from the perspective that, in essence, it all has been done already. As the artist, through my own discovery, I give you my take on something already out there. Whether I find it in nature, on the street, or looking out my backdoor, I look around me and I am excited by endless choices and possibilities. I see potential.
Our emotions remind us of who we are. I don’t look to tug on your conscious or push on your sensibilities. My aim is to delight. UI have fun. I love the play of light on ground and torch-kissed steel. I look for movement and energy, balance and unity in form. If I get some rhythm going, that’s cool too. My work is simple. Visual appeal – where everything belongs and nothing is missing in my intent.
I create functional, decorative, and signature art pieces – working predominately in steel. Each piece is hand crafted and no two are alike. Finishes vary. Powder-coating and clear-coating are popular choices for placement outdoors. The play of light on ground and torch-kissed steel is vibrant and visually exciting. Steel touched by the elements is also beautiful.
Much of my work is by commission and I enjoy collaborating with my clients. If you are remodeling, creating a new landscape design, or are interested in a signature piece, I work to create art that is aesthetically powerful, unique, and timeless for your indoor or outdoor space.

Comments about Mai Iska:  This is a piece I began just over 4 years ago for a “Fire Art” exhibition in the “Black Box” at the Washington Center. I did show three pieces then but ran out of time to complete this one. Since then, it’s been in my studio, unfinished. The original design had a granite base, 3’ x 3’ x 1” with the spiraling flock rising from it.

Contact: 360.455.0341 | ken@solsticestudio.com | solsticestudio.com

Materials: Welded Recycled Steel with Classic Chrome Powdercoat

About the Artist: The first task in art and education is “you must get their attention”. It is a primary principle of teaching and learning. Next, one must meet the viewer where they live, where they exist in their understanding and share what convergence exists between you. Then the practice of art, the living or art, can happen – must happen every day.
“Trainer of man, the hand multiplies him in space and time.” Said Henri Focillon, the great French art critic and aesthetician. These are the words I live by as an artist. As a public artist for over 30 years and former college art instructor, I have committed my life to making art relevant to everyday life – to multiply man’s vision. Art is not just for art’s sake; art is for people’s sake. Those communities that have committed to having outstanding collections of public art are aware of the challenges of their space, their context, and their viewers. As you will notice from the images of my work, there is a strong emphasis on natural inspiration, dynamic processes, symbolic gestures and contextual themes relevant to people and place.
My approach is often guided by my direct response to the material – what it suggests to me. After that moment of inspiration, the kraft (or in German, the power over the material), takes over to further transform my personal vision.
Most of my work exemplifies the power, integrity and dynamism inherent in the world and the transcendence of human spirit. Ultimately, you will complete this creative experience by validating what I have only initiated. That is what completes the creative act.

Contact: 360.876.3234 | karsten.boysen@yahoo.com

Material: Limestone

About the Artist: My carving is more or less representational – derived from natural organic form rather than pure geometry. I directly carve in stone and enjoy its reluctant acquiescence. Rock allows for change in form while maintaining its hardness, without relinquishing its essence.

Contact: 360.951.0206 | klp3@mac.com

Material: Galvanized Steel

About the Artist: The idea for RING DANCE #2/ CORE followed close on the completion of RING DANCE #1, in March of this year. Both pieces grew out of a curiosity regarding a compilation of various sized rings. I didn’t know in advance what the piece would look like. I made the rings, but then deliberately avoided any specific planning as to how they would be arranged to form the final sculpture. Working in collaboration with the elements allows the piece to accrue on its own. I just began welding the rings together, one by one - following a fluid set of guidelines - and let the piece show me what it wanted to be.
For guidelines, in this case, I paid attention to attaching each ring firmly to at least two others, and considered how to make the piece fully three dimensional - with no front, side, or back. I also tried to avoid placing any ring on the same plane with, or parallel to, any other. I was keeping in mind that I would offer CORE to the plinth project, so I considered, as I proceeded, how it might stand on a three foot cube.
The advantage of this open-ended play is that the resulting piece arrives from a place beyond my own imagination, from a crossroads of play and purpose, a mix of limits of material and process - each decision dependent on the results of the last. I arrive in a new territory, not quite sure how I got there. Then I look around.

Contact: 360.357.2850 | don@donfreas.com | donfreas.com

Materials: Welded Recycled Steel with International Yellow Safety Powdercoat

About the Artist: The first task in art and education is “you must get their attention”. It is a primary principle of teaching and learning. Next, one must meet the viewer where they live, where they exist in their understanding and share what convergence exists between you. Then the practice of art, the living or art, can happen – must happen every day.
“Trainer of man, the hand multiplies him in space and time.” Said Henri Focillon, the great French art critic and aesthetician. These are the words I live by as an artist. As a public artist for over 30 years and former college art instructor, I have committed my life to making art relevant to everyday life – to multiply man’s vision. Art is not just for art’s sake; art is for people’s sake. Those communities that have committed to having outstanding collections of public art are aware of the challenges of their space, their context, and their viewers. As you will notice from the images of my work, there is a strong emphasis on natural inspiration, dynamic processes, symbolic gestures and contextual themes relevant to people and place.
My approach is often guided by my direct response to the material – what it suggests to me. After that moment of inspiration, the kraft (or in German, the power over the material), takes over to further transform my personal vision.
Most of my work exemplifies the power, integrity and dynamism inherent in the world and the transcendence of human spirit. Ultimately, you will complete this creative experience by validating what I have only initiated. That is what completes the creative act.

Contact: 360.876.3234 | karsten.boysen@yahoo.com

Material: Plate and 16 gauge (hot rolled) steel with recycled lamppost and air tanks

About the Artist: In an unknowable time of the early universe, elements have not yet come together.  Magnesium, calcium, iron and such are moving, and colliding, carried by winds of space; Sometimes gently, sometimes fiercely, sometimes joining together.  The sound from this creation is reverberating still, somewhere out there.  In the same way the winds of our earth move the metals of this sculpture, reverberating to join with the Sound from the Ends of Time.

Artist Grey Brogdon has traveled extensively throughout the world and lived abroad for over eleven years. Grey finds joy in the creative process equally from the discovery of found items to the fabrication, casting, building, renovation, painting, drawing, and designing of original works. His contact with global peoples and their cultures has left an indelible mark captured in much of his art today. He is undaunted by attempting something new and feels most comfortable working in challenging mixed media projects.

Contact: 360.791.0189 | grey.b@comcast.net

Materials: Steel, gold leaf, paint, ceramic, copper

About the Artist: I use many mediums to keep the creative artistic spark going. I find that working on several projects at one time allows me to stand back and contemplate the process of each. Giving a piece a resting period while thinking and studying what a piece might need, or not. Most of my works are representational. I choose a particular medium for a project to express an idea to make it strong. I try to create action, movement or an emotion with my sculptures. Hopefully, my works will attract the viewer to stop and contemplate, and enjoy them.
“The Healer” a Shaman, represents a connection that we all need a sense of belonging, acceptance between all peoples, peace and happiness. This sculpture draws a strong significance representing me, as part of my Cherokee ancestry to respect all that is “Universal”. 

Leon has a strong respect for the natural wonders of the world and tried to capture that essence in his artwork. He is always seeking innovative new ideas for that “creative stimulation”. He divides his time between painting, stone sculpture, ceramic sculptures, bronzes and large public steel sculptures.
His grandmother encouraged him at an early age to live life to the fullest. She always told him, “Don’t wait for your ship to come in. Take a rowboat out and meet it.” This led him to pursue acting and modeling in the early 1980’s. While these opportunities have taken him around the world with a lifetime of memories, “ART” has always been his true love and fulfillment.

Contact: 206.922.3241 | 206.390.3145 | leonwhitestudio@comcast.com | leonwhitestudio.artspan.com

Materials: Welded Recycled Steel with Pearl Powdercoat

About the Artist: The first task in art and education is “you must get their attention”. It is a primary principle of teaching and learning. Next, one must meet the viewer where they live, where they exist in their understanding and share what convergence exists between you. Then the practice of art, the living or art, can happen – must happen every day.
“Trainer of man, the hand multiplies him in space and time.” Said Henri Focillon, the great French art critic and aesthetician. These are the words I live by as an artist. As a public artist for over 30 years and former college art instructor, I have committed my life to making art relevant to everyday life – to multiply man’s vision. Art is not just for art’s sake; art is for people’s sake. Those communities that have committed to having outstanding collections of public art are aware of the challenges of their space, their context, and their viewers. As you will notice from the images of my work, there is a strong emphasis on natural inspiration, dynamic processes, symbolic gestures and contextual themes relevant to people and place.
My approach is often guided by my direct response to the material – what it suggests to me. After that moment of inspiration, the kraft (or in German, the power over the material), takes over to further transform my personal vision.
Most of my work exemplifies the power, integrity and dynamism inherent in the world and the transcendence of human spirit. Ultimately, you will complete this creative experience by validating what I have only initiated. That is what completes the creative act.

Contact: 360.876.3234 | karsten.boysen@yahoo.com

Materials: Bronze, stainless steel, mild steel

About the Artist: My intimate familiarity with birds, especially falcons, along with my optimism and care about humanity, provide a plethora of related ideas to address concepts as diverse (and needed) as: grace, strength, motion, originally, life and purpose.
Giving the incredible privilege to be working in permanent media such as bronze, steel, and stone, I am relentless in sculpting, carving, casting, or forging these materials to bring as much value to them as possible. I engage in a high level of craftsmanship and work hard to express what I feel is the originality and spiritual essence of my subject or concept. I have pushed and continue to push my materials. I test the bending point, compression point, the breaking point, the melting point, the shining point and the roughing point of every bronze, steel, stone or other material that I work with until I know exactly what they are capable of doing both structurally and aesthetically. I combine my knowledge of materials with an equal measure of childlike curiosity and disciplined observation of the world around me to create a piece such as Windstar.

Contact: 360.791.8188 | ross@mattesonsculpture.com | mattesonsculpture.com