Category Archives: sculpture

Sometimes we have to pause . . .

By Chip Cain | Published February 13, 2010

When you look at an abstract piece of art, what do you see? Perhaps seeing is the wrong approach and you think your feelings might be a better set of eyes. But I would suggest that your head and heart together would be a perfectly tuned set of eyes. Do not let the head think [...]

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Jennifer Maestre's Pencil Sculptures

By Chip Cain | Published April 3, 2009

It is not hard to see that I am always interested in art created using the expected things; those things we expect to see or use everyday, used unexpectedly.  Jennifer Maestre’s sculptures fall into this category. I use pencils everyday, yes even in this day and age of keyboards, but never have I done anything [...]

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The Gift of The Unknown

By Chip Cain | Published January 12, 2009

As our culture changes, Walter Brueggemann has observed, we must restate eternal truths in order for them to remain truthful. For the faithful, the artistic imagination can safeguard the strangeness and newness of the gospel, preserving it from domestication by our ideologies and culture. This year, the Trinity Arts Conference theme urges us to curiosity [...]

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Natural Sculpture

By Chip Cain | Published July 10, 2008

Bonnie Ferrill Roman has developed a style of sculpting that is organic, often fluid in appearence and always a surprise to see. She begins her Artist’s Statement with “I believe that the transcendent experience of beauty is vital to the life of the soul, and this precept has always been at the core of why [...]

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