As the link to this from my last blog failed, here is the recent newsletter announcing Awakening, evidencing an obvious though primitive solution to the blog/nl conflict - do either, then cut & paste!

I proudly announce the completion of my thirteenth sculpture, previously presented as Lady Longlegs in clay, now titled Awakening.

Awakening was inspired by this past summer's session with a young woman, a New Zealander.  Her height and slender body presented a significant challenge, yet her ability to assume and hold this difficult pose and her naturalness and ease made completing this piece inevitable.In working with her in my studio, first in clay and then wax, I came to think of her not as folding into herself, but beginning to unfurl, to awaken, as a blossom does.

As you probably know, not all of my clays go to completion in bronze. Making the choice of which to finish is an emotional and intuitive response - I am starting to understand that this lovely little bronze symbolizes the beginning of one's recognition of one's own particular beauty.

Happy 2012!

Marianne Hornbuckle

Watch for Expectation, coming this spring!

  

Blog or Newsletter - always a coin toss,,,,

It's always a confusion, and a challenge, and almost a barricade, choosing between blogging and sending out a
 Newsletter and it seems hard to do both, and paint, and keep up with everything else.

Indian Summer, 16x16,ac/board c MHornbuckle201

My newsletters are not scheduled, as I don't do workshops, or publish books, or feel that I regularly have something significant to say - they evolve out  of something accomplished, a new painting (or a series), a sculpture brought to fruition, something to celebrate that might be of interest to those interested in my work, or in my husband's sumi-e. Likewise my blogs are also not scheduled, though I have promised myself to force a choice this year, and to attend to each more often.
If you'd like to see my newest sculpture, click on newsletter above.  Here are recent paintings, which spawned, or were spawned by (not sure which) each other, their purpose to get me back to painting in these quiet cold days of winter, now that "Expectation" is off to the moldmaker (see NL).. and it'll be some time before I can start her waxes. This is my usual pattern, painting or sculpture having its turn, sometimes with a difficult entry period filled with avoidance and multi-tasking and feeling disoriented and scattered for a few days.  I know if I am patient, this will pass and so the direction and creativity will finally present itself, and take me on the next journey! The little ones will have to wait, as I've just discovered how badly I photographed them and will have to try again tomorrow   ....Marianne

GASP!!!! BIG BLOG GAP!!!

At SFSA Art show, September?

Clay of Lady Long Legs

So embarrassing to be claiming to have a blog, and not have posted since August, and I'm sure I must have had something to say in all that time!  Newsletters were posted, activities were attended, obligations were met, responsibilities were reckoned with, new work was completed, and our house didn't turn into a hoarders' heaven (my secret fear). Looking back, I see a half-finished blog from mid-September just before the Pojoaque River Art Tour, one of our yearly marking points here in the Pojoaque Valley in northern New Mexico.  Think I'll just stop here and publish that one first.........