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CLEAR ABSTRACTIONS

A crystal sculpture requiring over 300 hours to create might sound arduous at best, especially given the impatient world we live in today. However as an artist, I crave these quiet intimate moments bonded to one's work to simply experience the fourth dimension of the creative process.

GOING FULL CIRCLE

There are not many occasions in life when you can say you have met a creative genius. Stuart Devlin was once described as having the “Midas touch.”

In early June 1981, my tutoring Professor at the Birmingham School of Jewellery and Design, Ronald Pennell, had been exhibiting his engraved works in ivory and bronze at Devlin’s gallery on Conduit Street. Ronald had kindly arranged for me to meet with the master, so I set forth for London to meet Stuart Devlin, considered at the time to be "the world's greatest goldsmith.”

MAKING A MAQUETTE

Creating a three dimensional maquette for a major project can often reveal positive and negative aspects one might not have first considered. It also provides an experimental staging for creative play, even though a patient process each step can be a cathartic experience in building a better design.

The word Maquette is a French word for scale model, and is sometimes referred to by the Italian name plastico or modello, which is a small scale model or rough draft of an unfinished architectural work or sculpture.

THE GOLDEN SEAHORSE

Many years ago in a small hillside village overlooking the Aegean Sea, a small boy named Alexandros stood transfixed by what he had found that morning.

SAILING TO COLL

A TOUCH OF HUMANITY

Interview with Mark Raynes Roberts
by Tabitha Venasse, Freelance Writer
Photo Credit: Joy von Tiedemann

Q. How long have you been passionate about diversity education?

A. "I first became exposed to the real necessity for diversity education in the world as the
key to counter prejudice and hatred in 1999, when I had created the Human Relations
Award for the first time for the Canadian Centre for Diversity, an organization
focused on student diversity education programs across Canada.