2022 Garden Show
A snippet of our recent sculpture show in the front garden this weekend. Very fun,16 years of creations in bronze. Hope you enjoy the show and thank you all for coming out!
Sculptures, good times and visitors exploring our June 4th - 5th, 2022 Garden Sculpture show on Downey Road.
Winter/Spring 2021
Finally, a sense of normality is back in the air. Commissions have started coming in. New projects completed and or underway include the Humphead Wrasse, the Climbing Octopus mounted on a fireplace hearth, an American Avocet, a kelp forest sculpture with a school of herring, a life-sized Mandrill (Baboon) and a herd of 25 Ruby Octopuses commissioned by Mt Sinai Hospital in New York City for recognition and appreciation gifts for an international group of neuroscientists.
Humphead Wrasse
Climbing Octopus
Raven on Rock
Winter 2020 - Studio News
Happy New Year
The past year was one of creativity and adventure and I feel both very fortunate and inspired for 2020. The year started out with a surprise visit from a Kuwaiti gentleman who came to my studio one spring day and ended up leaving with over 27 pieces of my bronze works, most of my inventory and collection built up in the studio sculpture gardens over the years. Obviously it was time to get to work and start building up the inventory again. Many of the new pieces created in 2019 were direct inspirations from recent travel adventures, Grizzly Bears from Bute Inlet, Howling Wolf from Desolation Sound, Peregrine Falcons and Ravens from the Yukon, and more locally the Kingfisher, Jellyfish and Rockfish sculptures.
One of the more memorable moments of the year was creating a Pangolin sculpture for WildAid’s fundraising efforts directed towards wildlife conservation in Africa. The sculpture was auctioned of at the WildAid Gala this past November at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles. What a wild and wonderful party they put on to celebrate their incredible achievements in global conservation!
Paul & Jutta at the WildAid Gala
This year I am focused on a major entry into the Sidney Fine Art show, continued support of WildAid and the creation of some of my old favourites: octopus, fish, bears and a new narwhal sculpture. Stay tuned!
Fall 2020
One of the casualties of the new COVID order has been the cancellation of the Saanich Peninsula spring and fall studio tours. These events were the highlights of my year, giving me a chance to display my works, interact with established clients and meet new clients and friends. As I was lamenting the absence of the tours, it came to me that we could set up a COVID-19 safe, private outdoor Sculpture Garden Show in the studio gardens. All the animals came home and we had over 65 sculptures on display for the show.
Paul at private outdoor Sculpture Garden Show
Summer 2020
Sunny Hill Children’s Hospital Therapy Garden
This was an extremely satisfying and rewarding project for me. The BC Children’s Hospital Foundation commissioned me to create a bear cub sculpture in the Therapy Garden at the new Sunny Hill Hospital for children, Working closely with the hospital’s design consultant, Roger Hill with Aesthetics Inc, we came up with a very friendly and cute bear cub perched in the fork of a polished arbutus tree stem. The sculpture was installed at the site for the August 2020 opening of the new hospital.
Bear cub in Arbutus tree
A Tribute to Takaya
Several years ago, while having a picnic with friends on Discovery Island off the coast of Victoria we thought we heard a howling wolf. Sure enough, it turned out to be a lone wolf that had swum to the island. This was the start of an incredible 5 year journey of love and passion by my dear friend Cheryl Alexander who studied and photographed this magnificent animal. Working with CBC and BBC, Cheryl created an award-winning and highly acclaimed film of her amazing story and experience with Takaya, the lone wolf of Discovery Island. Sadly, Takaya met a tragic end to his life when he was needlessly shot and killed by a trophy hunter. It only seemed natural to create a life-sized likeness of Takaya in bronze as a tribute to this story.
Wolf pack with Takaya in centre