“It is paramount to explore the ideas at the core of what we are doing as artists.”
Explore Artist Sandy Webster’s ideas taking form here.
Portfolio
Sculpture
“Remember how something important, very important, will happen to you and you say “I will never forget this.” Then with time and age you do forget. And from nowhere, a sound, smell, soft breeze, etc. will trigger a need to recall and literally “build” that memory.” Here are a few of the structural forms created…
Drawing
“The simple drawings and marks are thresholds through which the entire scene returns. And the words bring back the feelings felt at the time, and not conjured up through faded memories. The quality of labored-over drawings gets in the way of the need to record my responses to the things that matter when there is…
Painting
“My writings, urged by a need to document thoughts and reactions to time and events, have more recently become part of the artwork…as much for their calligraphic style as reference to the subject. Those lines of writing can be enlarged to the point of sweeping partial words across a canvas or barely visible in the…
Mixed Media
“Pieces are cut and stitched for the desired shape that allows for the mystery of image, light, space and volume to form. Some of the pieces are more like baskets, others like houses and boats…each evoking its own connections to containment.”
Personal Narratives
“I don’t know where my pad of paper is, the one where I started to write about aging. I thought it was over there on the corner table – but no another yellow, lined legal pad with pages torn away exposing the next blank page waiting for words. It is day to read poetry or…
Printmaking
“There is something inexplicably exciting about the brayer over ink on glass, then block; positioning the block on the press bed and the careful drop of paper. While keeping gentle contact during the layering of more paper and felts, I soon feel the grab of roller starting over block…and finally pulling up the layers to…