Long time regular readers will recall my series of weekly sculpture posts. I love sculpture and enjoy researching the results of the pieces I find on my walks and journeys through the year. For new readers, you may find these posts in the category drop down over in the sidebar, under Sculpture.
On Thursday last, I had a comment from Brian Connolly, a sculptor, whose work I have featured several times. His comment this time was addressed to Alice at My Wintersong, in relation to his piece The Healing Tree.
The Healing Tree
The Healing Tree.
Alice’s Comment:
That would look super in my garden. What do you s’pose they’d take for it? All kidding aside, art that makes you think about it and remember it has already accomplished. Who cares about utility.
Brian’s reply:
Alice I know you commented a long time ago, but your instinct is very close to the reality of the artwork’s development! The original idea was for a private garden and I had proposed to cast the family around a tree. The idea was too radical for the father and I did not get the commission at that time!…. but it did lead to this artwork for the Antrim Area Hospital!
Brian Connolly
Perhaps it is a timely reminder to lift the lid on the topic Sculpture once more. I like to take the photos myself, even though they may not be of as high a standard as Barbara, my niece at Day One or Ed Mooney at EdMooneyPhotography.
I do have two pieces in my camera, both taken on my last visit to Dublin at the beginning of February. My brother took me out for coffee to Kildare on a dreary dull day. The torrential rain obliged only long enough for me to take a few photos.
It has been a dark & miserable winter and I long for better weather and permission to get behind the wheel again to sally forth on my voyages of discovery.
It looks like a perfect way to heal my aching back.
Hope you can “sally forth” soon. I love that expression and soon hope to incorporate it in my conversations today.
I am not sure if we could sit comfortably in them, but they do add interest to the area outside the main entrance to the hospital.
Hope spring arrives soon and allows you to get out and about.
Today, after several showers that included large hailstones, the sky cleared and I went down to the town for a few items. The sunshine gladdened my heart, but I would have loved to walk by the sea. or along a river bank for a change.
Lovely sculpture. Though the two figures on the left and right don’t look very comfortable. Any spare chairs, anyone?
Nick, I think, from memory, that the father is in front, the mother at the back and the children at each side. There are a few benches on either side of the doorway.
Interesting sculpture and observation from the sculptor.
Spring has to be around the bend. It just has to be. We’ve had daffodils bloom already, but the last I saw of them, they were bent over and limp looking from the most recent bout of winter precipitation and temperatures below freezing. We seldom have more than few weeks of real winter here and it’s going on 3 1/2 months of it for us.
I hope you have clear and bright skies soon and often and that you can get out and about.
Mike, I am ready for Spring, big time. There are daffs for sale in the shops, but the would be imported or forced, Give it a week or two and the daffodils will dance with joy, I might even join them.
That is such a beautiful sculpture and unique, too. I have never seen anything like it before.
It certainly appealed to me.
I’d love to sit there. So creative.
Celia, so long as you had no need to go inside the hospital!
So true!
Love the sculpture! You do great work!
Dianne, that photo is from a few years ago. My camera is itching to get going again.
I loved this work before, the blending of nature and artistry.
XO
WWW
WWW, I find it very appealing, especially with the tree growing up in the middle to act like an umbrella.
Hope you have fair weather soon, and can get out and about. Interesting work, great name.
The sky hung like a fog today and at almost 17:00, I need to turn the lights on. That is an hour and a half earlier that all through the week.
Thank you! Your photos are good too though!
I’ve bought myself an idiots guide to photoshop… so my photos might get interesting soon! ?
Barbara, your photos are always interesting.