Sally Smith

"Shoaling 5" Sculptural wall installation of a school of fish

2023

"I live on the coast of a small island in the South Pacific - Waiheke, surrounded by green blue sea and copious amount of sea and bird life. This rich environment influences my work ...

"I live on the coast of a small island in the South Pacific - Waiheke, surrounded by green blue sea and copious amount of sea and bird life. This rich environment influences my work ...

Hugh Holborn is that rare kind of craftsman who is also an auteur in his own right. He started his journey when he was 12 as an apprentice for New Mexico sculptor Jim Martin. From there he went on to study his craft at the American College of Building Art. He brings industrial materials such as steel, iron and salvaged metals to life as metallic marine life, honoring the aquatic creatures around which he lives. Growing up between the New England islands and Florida, Holborn feels blessed to have always lived boating on and swimming in the waters that now inspire his metalwork. Memories from diving and fishing are important parts of his life, yet with climate changed and increased environmental concerns he also recognizes his experience with the ocean as impermanent. Holborn now lives in St. Augustine, Florida with his girlfriend and their newborn twin daughters. His artwork has given him a sense of self reliance and environmental stewardship—being able to craft functional items for his own home and doing so in a way he knows is environmentally conscious. He plans to keep creating art using historical methods, and wants to keep those methods alive by teaching them to new craftsman...

The historic tradition of cast bronze provides a contemporary avenue for the creation of Wayne Salge’s abstracted human and animal figures. Thoroughly modern and distinctly impressio...

This early design by Curtis Jere for Artisan House features a dense school of fish swimming together. Cleverly balancing the representational and abstract, the sculpture activates a...

Wall art made from metal with a school of fish. Please confirm location NY or NJ.

My art mirrors natural forms with biomorphic dystopian edges. In the viewer’s mind the shapes are familiarly organic yet there is a tension as one struggles to comprehend the life cy...

Molly Schulps is an artist and educator living in both California and Oregon. She grew up in Southern California and was deeply influenced by her father who was a successful educator...