“Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master."

― Toni Sorenson

Tim Read

When he created his first metal head in 1986, he was influenced by the large stone heads of the Olmecs. Having been introduced to ancient South American and Mexican sculpture on a visit to Mexico City when he was a teenager, it has left a lasting impression. He found that the head and face, which is the basis of his sculptures, made a powerful connection with the viewer. After considering the recognizable traits in his sculpture, he wanted the viewer to explore the sculptural ideas of space, mass, and volume. Many of his sculptures are pierced with openings and spaces to allow the eye to penetrate the form and give a sense of the interior versus the exterior and the relationship between the volume and the surface. He also creates small figurative sculptures in bronze where he works directly in wax with his hands. It is interesting for him to go from large to small and vice versa. Over the years he has completed and installed many large scale sculptures, including a commissioned set of heads, Athena and Apollo, for Richard Weidman and artist Jonathan Green in Naples, Florida in 1994, which Apollo was later acquired by The Naples Museum of Art in Naples, Florida for their permanent collection in 2009.

Douglas and Meghan
Taylor Gebler

Married in 1983, this artistic couple began to work together on their body of sculptures after both receiving Graduate Studies at the Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, and an apprenticeship for Douglas with John Waddeli in 1980.

Known nationwide for their involvement in the ice skating world from private commissions and installations including the Beaver Creek Art Association, installation of "Wylie's Reach" (life-size) in Beaver Creek, October 1997; "1997 Figure Skater of the Year" Trophy, commissioned by USFSA Skating Magazine; 1997 Skating portrait commission, Kristi Yamaguchi, commissioned by Incline Ice Foundation, Lake Tahoe, CA (1996); Skating portraits of Paul Wylie, commissioned by Lisa Webster, Vail, CO, Sun Valley, ID, and Princeton, NJ (1995); and Skating portrait commissions, Carla Schulz (1993), plus many more. The couple has also exhibited at numerous locations including the "1997 Figure Skater of the Year" Award, trophy unveiling; Premier unveiling of” Kristi Yamaguchi's Juliet" by Kristi Yamaguchi, NYC, 08 February 1997; Art Expo, New York, 1997; "From Blades to Bronze," special exhibition of skating sculptures at the World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, CO with the opening in conjunction with the 75th Anniversary of the United States Figure Skating Association that included on-site sculpting demonstrations from May-September, 1996; Exhibit for the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Governor's Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1995; "Nicole's Layback" loaned on exhibit to World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame, CO, 1994; "Pageant of the Masters," Festival of Fine Arts; pageant performance of the "Death Spiral," Laguna Beach, CA, 1999; Art Expo, Los Angeles, CA, and all throughout Arizona.

Catherine Lorain

Born in France in 1941, and now living in Quebec, Canada and France, she began her self-taught artistic career by creating jewelry and accessories for the theatre. In 1967, she produced several monumental sculptures for the pavilion of the Montreal Opera House. The human body, male or female, fascinated this Canadian artist and with the supple forms and the intentionally exaggerated proportions that she gives to her sculptures, her style gives these subjects much more character. The artist approaches her subjects with veneration and tries, through the clay, to materialize her thoughts into tangible forms. The expression of the human body, whether inspired by antiquity, by great civilizations or by her immediate environment, becomes her source of inspiration, which she decodes into a contemporary language—stylized by reducing to the essentials. Once completed the work goes through a final metamorphosis to espouse its definitive form in that noble material, bronze. Her male figures expound virility and a solid architecture; her women show as much vigor but their expression is rounder, smoother. Since 1982 her artworks have been displayed in numerous personal and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe. She is a member of the Association of Sculptors of Quebec, of the International Association of Plastic Art of Unison, and of the International Sculpture Center. Her bronzes, and other work, are found in many private collections around the world, notably that of the Duke of Edinburgh.

Peter Dickson

He spent his first year of college at RIT studying art, but realized he wasn't prepared emotionally to do what he felt "art" should be, so he joined the Navy shortly after. He had another try at art after the Navy at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1965 and a confrontation with non-objective “Art”. Finally he moved on to Architecture at the University of Oregon. In all of his work the idea or Philosophy is his primary motivation, as a view of man expressed in the language of movement. The media of his art is always the servant of the idea, and the idea is that man is a delicate balance of strength and tenderness, of resolve and hesitation, of intensity and repose, and of pride and modesty, with ultimately man being always the hero.

Renate Popan

Born and raised in Germany, she studied art at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany. In 1960, Renate immigrated to the United States, and in 1976, Renate relocated together with her husband, who worked in the oil business, to Saudi Arabia for a duration of 15 years. There, she worked as a potter making high fire, hand built, one of a kind vessels and winning first prizes in many art shows. Later in her career she turned her interest exclusively to sculpture, inspired by sculptors such as Brancusi, Archipenko and Laurens. Her own stylized, sensuous sculpture is a celebration of the female form, expressing individuality and a certain degree of vulnerability. Often she draws her inspiration from mythological, historical or popular cultural sources. Since 1993, Renate and her husband made Santa Fe their permanent home. She has shown her work in various galleries in town, and was selected for a show at the Governor’s Gallery at the Capitol Building in Santa Fe.