HOME PAGE JOIN OUR SITE ART BUSINESS CLASSIFIED ADS CRAFTS FESTIVALS FOODS GARDEN GIFTS HEALTH HOME JEWELRY KIDS GALLERY THINGS TO DO WINES CONTACT US	| Gordon Punt Page 1 | Gordon Punt Page 2 | Gordon Punt Garden Art | Artist's Statement: Stone: The process of using a hammer and chisel and chipping away at a seemingly indestructable material satisifies my need for a new challenge every day. Many boulders or stone formations seem to have strong personalities and I receive a kind of energy from them. When I choose to use a boulder for a sculpture, I like to leave as much as possible of its original presence alone. My belief is that we are simply another form of nature and not superior to it, along with my facination for the human face, inspires me to combine the two. I am attracted to shapes, and a face not only expresses humanity, but has many different contours concentrated in one small area. Bronze: In recent years I have been working with the sensual female nude. I have incorporated a stronger and simpler element of design, and celebrate the positive and negative shapes the figures make in space. In my school years, I competed in gymnastics. I have started an acrobatic series that relates to my love of this sport. I plan to keep this group in the sketch format, much like the small bronze ballerinas of Degas. Another theme you will see in my work, whether it be in bronze or stone, is that of idealized female beauty. I have expressed both the postive and negative aspects of it, and sometimes use the image of a mask to do so.
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