Lindley Briggs' website www.lindleybriggssculpture.com is one of the most beautiful artist websites I have seen. Please visit and enjoy!
Hands - Lindley Briggs
Reunion - Lindley Briggs
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Rescuing Van Gogh
One of the first artist tenants at Sanctuary Arts was musician,
sculptor, and now, motion graphics designer, Don Severance, known as
“Sev”. He
has been in and out of this place, keeps on returning, and bringing the
sunshine
with him. He now maintains a music, sculpture and animation studio here.
His
Flash animation, “Rescuing Van Gogh” tickled me enough to want to share
his
multi- media approach to art.
This spoken word, music, animation fantasy
narrative addresses the perennial question, “Where does inspiration come
from?”
As we sit before a blank canvas, a chunk of clay and ask “Where is this
going?”,
we can imagine Van Gogh felt this way too. You can view other results of
Sev's
exploration of video, music, and motion graphics at www.sevhead.com.
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There is still time!
While many of our
Spring/Summer classes have started, there are still many that won't
start until late June and July. Please visit our online catalog
to check out the offerings. You're sure to find a class that speaks to
you!
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Congratulations!
Congratulations and best wishes to Josh Dow
and Lauren Holgren, our Green
Foundry sculpture casting experts, on their marriage at the end of this
month.
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Lindley Briggs was one of the first working artists I met
when I moved to this area back in the 70's. She and her husband Jeff actually
made a living with their beautifully crafted wooden sculpture. I lost touch for
a while, until Lindley showed up here to take classes at Sanctuary Arts, first
Jewelry with Alice Carroll, and then Figure Sculpture with me and Cate Aichele,
classes that have led her to incorporate more figures into her visual
vocabulary. A few years back I
asked Lindley to teach an Imaginative Small Scale Sculpture Class, which was
well received. This Summer I have asked her for a repeat performance (Imaginative Small Scale Sculpture SA-15). She works
solely in a mix of non-toxic materials, a bonus for those of us who have become
sensitized to various harmful materials in the course of our working lives.
I've become fascinated with the combinations of media and form that she
whimsically collages together to create her own mythology with images that go
beyond literal representation. Her work walks a fine line between fantasy,
reality, and surrealism. Using either single fragments or multiples, her
imaginative world captivates the viewer, evoking conceptual, symbolic
archetypes in earthly, celestial, or aquatic realms.
12.C.Male
As a child, Lindley Briggs was immersed in the world of art.
Her mother was an accomplished artist who decided to raise a family and teach
art in public schools, rather than seek her career in New York. Art supplies abounded in her
household, and frequent trips were made to museums. Lindley's art lessons were
more intuitive than formal. As a young teen, she cut linoleum and wood blocks
as well as inking fish and maple leaves to create prints on paper. After two
years of back to back liberal arts courses in college, she took her first
formal art class. Her final two years of college were totally filled with art
classes. Sculpture completely hooked her. She had a wonderful teacher and was
given her own private studio where her art flourished.
Wanting to continue her
training, Lindley enrolled at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. The
first year she studied with traditional academic instructors, working with the
model and learning traditional skills. Her diligence was awarded with a full
scholarship to Skowhegan School of Painting
and Sculpture in sculpture for the
summer.
The Perfect Couple
The second year, all classes were done away with and chaos ensued.
Lindley left, but not before meeting her husband to be, painting student
Jeffery Briggs, at the Viennese Restaurant in Harvard Square where they both
worked. Together they started making waterbed frames for a local company, which
subsequently folded, leaving them with a great deal of wood. They began
creating wooden butterflies, dragonflies, moths and oversized wooden flowers,
which they marketed through the Rhinebeck Show, an American Crafts Council
juried craft show. They sold their pieces successfully for 15 years (making
over 6000 wooden butterflies).
Jeff began creating larger one of a kind carvings and Lindley created
wooden fantasy assemblages, incorporating winged women, flowers, and blades of
grass which were marketed by a visual merchandising company in Manhattan, as
well as sold in galleries.
Griffin Lady
Ten
years ago, Lindley went back to sculpture full time. Her work is featured in
eight galleries throughout the country. She has recently been honored by the
acceptance of four of her medals to the FIDEM International Medallic Arts
conference in Finland and was commissioned by Brandeis University to create a
benefactor pin for Friends of the Library. Lindley's work is influenced by her
love of mythology and includes human / animal / bird / hybrids. René Magritte
and Paul Manship are two of her favorite artists. Like all good teachers,
Lindley is generous with her technical knowledge and inspiring with her whimsical
imagery.
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