Friday, 8 June 2012

Superior Transfiguration


Paperclay, glazes with acrylics

22" x 22" x 16"

2012

I have been experimenting with paperclay, glazes and acrylic paints this past year, exploring colour and texture now that my forms are developed.
This began as a 3" maquette/clay sketch idea: I imagined a figure in the sunset - a large angel, suspended hidden on the water of a sunset. The vivid sunsets of Lake Superior, where I grew up, always live in me.

This month, when I completed this large sculpture, I placed it on some sand from my beach at Sand Bay, (near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario).
When the figure was kneeling on the sand, the context changed to a person facing a sunset!
Brillance reflected on its wings.  Not the usual brilliance of white light that I had always seen, but a multi-coloured, prismatic brillance:  In the Presence of Our God, that we kneel, will kneel.

With clay and colour, texture and form  I am enjoying making more visible Our Brilliant God:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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About the Artist

ELIZABETH HENSTOCK

B. Art (Studio Art & Art History),University of Toronto; O.C.Dip. Sheridan College; B. Ed. Queen’s University; O. C. T.; O. A. E. A.

Elizabeth studied with renowned Canadian Master ceramic artist, Bruce Cochrane.

She is founding Artist & Educator, King’s Christian Collegiate, Oakville, Ontario; and, she sits on Professional Art Advisory Council, Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario.

Her work is exhibited across Canada, including:Toronto, Vancouver, and Kingston; with public and private collections/commissions in Canada, France, and Spain; including: Jean Vanier, L’Arche Community, France; Brian Doerksen, Abbotsford, B.C.; St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto; and, Queen’s University.

Lake Superior’s shore was her formative landscape; she currently lives in Burlington, Ontario with her supportive husband Stephen and their two terrific teens: Spenser and Eliot.

Elizabeth’s contact information: henstock@sympatico.ca