Head of a Girl –  Plaster – Life Size

The tradition of impressionism in sculpture is represented by a relatively small handful of artists in the late 1800’s and beyond. I’ve found it profoundly moving to view exhibitions of this powerful genre with its raw application of clay and the immediacy of casting technique, along with emotive gestural effects and surface textures. In this portrait sculpture, I like the way naturalistic proportion and gentle expression combine with fingerprints, tool marks and leftover seams from casting. The effect is a nod of admiration to and incorporation of the always fresh, and ever evocative, techniques of sculptural impressionism.