Bridgette Mongeon- With professor Richard Hathaway

I have always been drawn to the human form, especially the face. I strive to capture more than a likeness. Through my sculpture work I seek the essence of an individual. I create a memory or time in a life through portraiture of both the living and deceased. A masterful portrait does not come from the artist alone; it is a collaboration among artist, subject, and those who revere or love the subject. The emotional investment of these people helps to bring each work to life.

I see the world in the face of the elderly
and the heavens in the face of a child.
 
Bridgette Mongeon-Sculptor

My most recent studio work incorporates both traditional and digital processes of sculpting:tra-digi art. The perpetual advancements and the desire to streamline my creative process fuels me.

There is a healing and an educational process that I desire with all of my creative endeavors. In my writing and podcasts, I share vulnerability, experiences, both my own and others, and conversations with the genuine hope that they will assist others in healing. I strive to help both myself and others obtain a fulfilled life infused with creative passion and curiosity and bringing to light new processes that enhance productivity. This healing and educational practice is integral to all of my creative endeavors.

COLLABORATIONS

I’m seeking opportunities to educate groups through speaking engagments and workshops on teh following topics

• Marketing in the Arts
• Sculpting
• New Technology in traditional Studio
• Digital Sculpting
• Writing
• Spiritual and Motivational topics.

WEBSITES

Contact

Bridgette@creativesculpture.com

Linka Behn

A watcher, I collect expressions in the face or shouted in stance of body. Textural history in rusting metals, peeling paint, aging wood describe momentary and transformative life. Combined, they describe individual, moment and time.

“Choices rising” Mixed Media: collage, textured paste surface, acrylic, charcoal 24 ̋ x 48“4-Back” Mixed media: found metals, pastel, textured paste surface, collaged pattern tissue, acrylic, colored pencil, charcoal 18 ̋ x 18

I celebrate women: the curves, dips, rises, landscape of woman’s body- nuances of color within her skin, whis- pers of beauty draped in shadows across her body. Silent stories of history reside in how she rests, sits, stands, folds her hands. She is cloaked in a spiritual ease: an aura of knowing.

Women are an invisible column of continued growth and support in the architecture of our society. I paint commonalities, women’s authenticity from transformation- silent or voiced. exploring layers of shared responses: joy, pain, hope overlaying personal history, exclusion, and involvement. Summoning strength, she rises above to peace-filled knowing of ‘woman.’ I capture this com- mon ‘rising-above’ troubles- her recogni- tion of strength and capability.

I reason what it means to be a woman now, with things to say, to share, to teach. I examine how we make mean- ing in our lives, how we create identity, what we hide, and what we allow to be seen. Women in my world envelope. Understanding her, I understand me.

“4-Back” Mixed media: found metals, pastel, textured paste surface, collaged pattern tissue, acrylic, colored pencil, charcoal 18 ̋ x 18

CONTACT

linka@artZeyes.CoM

COLLABORATION

WEBSITES AND LINKS TO OTHER MATERIAL