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Carol Gold: Bronze Sculptor

Carol Gold, Sculptor

Carol Gold and her sculpture, Time

CAROL GOLD: “I sculpt in wax, then cast into bronze.

“I have chosen to work with human and animal forms to best express my feelings about nature and the human condition.

“I strive to convey a mood as well as create a sense of motion in space. Through the years my sculpture has moved in the direction of increasing simplicity….”

I had the very good fortune to live in the same area as Carol in the early 90s, and was able to visit her in her studio.

I was so impressed with her ability to get so much movement and depth of emotion in such simple forms.

Her handling of the wax she uses as her base medium is exemplary – using it sparingly, details forgone in stark, yet incredibly soft, powerful movement.

Carol doesn’t go in for the loud, jazzy patinas you see on a lot of contempoary bronzes. She sticks with accentuating the form and feeling of each piece by using graduated bronze coloring or the soft greens found on old statuary.

Carol is a true master of her art. Through spare detail and restraint of line, she expresses the full range of the essence of being, and the elegance of the physical form as it moves through emotion and the natural world.

The Daring Dreamers ShowcaseTo listen in on our complete interview (31 minutes) on Outdoor Sculpture and all about it, how Carol got commissions, makes her art, and more, go HERE or click on the I Dare You Radio logo to the left.

Carol was Featured Artist of the Month on the International Association of Women Sculptors website last month – see images of her work HERE.

And you can see the beautiful article about Carol and me on pages 33 through 39 at the online magazine, Artizen Magazine this month HERE.

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Tara Reed, Artist and Art Licensing Expert

tara-reedThis week’s Daring Dreamer: Artist and Art Licensing Expert Tara Reed.

I invite you to pay close attention to this Daring Dreamers Showcase, because in a time when more people – especially artists! – are complaining about how hard it is, Tara has only seen more and more success. (Find her at ArtLicensingInfo.com)

Listen to this – it will surprise you and blow you away!

At a particularly powerful time in her life, she was smart enough to ask herself the right questions and listen to the answers and take action on them. She has given herself the gift of a powerful marketing seminar, which allowed her to learn how to do what her dreams came up with.

In this interview, you’ll hear how to ask the same kinds of educational questions so you, too, can fly through this trying time with freedom, fun and financial gain.

Artist Tara Reed is a mom and an artist whose business is licensing her art: making it available to compaines who place it on various merchandise. She calls herself an artist “by passion, not education,” because she has no formal art training, yet has made her work work for her.

During her 2004 divorce, she realized she had to make a decision:  take the safer route and get a traditional job with a boss and benefits, or continue with her desire to build her own business on her terms. As a Daring Dreamer, you can guess which she chose!

Only four years later, Tara created ArtLicensingInfo.com – the go-to site for artists to learn from a variety of experts in the art licensing industry. She’s passionate about teaching other artists what licensing is all about, why do it, and how to take the steps to do it.

IDYR-logo-1009-94sq-siteClick on the logo to the left or HERE to listen to our interview.

AND: This is fantastic – wait until you see this! If you are a creative professional, looking for a better way to work and grow your business, you’re going to love it!

Tara created The Goal Wheel for Artists™ (I use it, myself and love it – it’s easy to use because it’s designed for us right-brainers!). It is created specifically for artists and creative professionals who want to set & achieve goals while still working from a place of inspiration. Click HERE or on the logo below to get it!

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And if you would like to hear a great call Tara did for SEO (search engine optimization) for artists, go HERE.

Did you find this article and interview useful? Comments are open!

Angela Treat Lyon: Interviewed on Success with Kate Radio Show

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Today the tables are turned!

I was interviewed by Success Coach Kate Beeders on her Success with Kate Radio Show this weekend. Find Kate here: successcoachingwithKate.com.

It was such fun – Kate’s a good interviewer. You’ll hear all about passion, creativity…how I first decided never to be bored and always be as passionate and alive as possible…and my renegade EFT ideas that say don’t neutralize that energy!

I also fill you in on why I believe my tapping books are the best around; my how-to-get-out-of-being-broke money books, and lots more.

HERE’s where to get Part One, and HERE’s where to get Part 2.

 

Patricia Bengston, Stone Sculptor: Living Her Deepest Dreams

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One of California’s foremost stone sculptors, Patricia Bengston-Jones is a shining example of a Daring Dreamer – someone who doesn’t take Normal for one minute and who bucks the odds to live her Deepest Dreams. Not because of any rebellion, necessarily, but because it’s simply who she is and what she does.

She’s a powerful example of someone who really lives her passion, not alowing the numbing, everyday trance that surrounds us that says, “get a job, be norrrrmaallll…” overtake her!

Raw, mythical power

I was really taken with her work. I love the raw, mythical quality of it, and how she allows the stone to be stone, rather than trying to make something pretty-pretty out of it. It’s stone: heavy; plain; figured; textural; translucent; eternal; even humorous.

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I love how her forms give you an inkling of a story, but not much more than will tickle your own frames of reference and put you on the beginning of a path to create your own stories from the images.

Time and Form

lets-clean-the-barnaclesIDYRHere is one of the pieces I loved the most. Although these are all maritime themed, not all of her works are.  Let’s Clean the Barnacles Off: made from Travertine and Slate, 10″ x 7″ x 20″

 

Here’s what she has to say on her site: PBengtson.com

“As a seeker of knowledge, with ten years of landscape and (color) field painting in 1972, I returned to finished my education, to find answers in my search of the ‘unknown’.

“This led me into sculpture and using concepts of the prehistoric monumental stone sites and myths. I visited England, Italy and Mexico, and lived in the Southwest.

I used the monolithic forms, arches and stacking or layering to denote the passage of time in my sculpture

bengston-jones-marble“This background information along with the mythology of the Vikings, has helped me research my own heritage which combines Swedish and Northern European.

 

“My endless search has helped to shed some light on the unexplained phenomena of my past cultures. It enables my sculpture to come together as a ‘Passage to My Heritage.’ ”

Make sure you visit her site for more mythical, powerful stone and glass work – especially check out that gateway she’s carving in the image above! See lots more of her works at her website, PBengtson.com.

 


The Black Madonna, Carved by Hand from Black Soapstone

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This is the Black Madonna (and her child) after about 15 carving sessions.

The stone you see with my glasses on top is what this piece looked like at the start. You can see my hammer next to it.

I carve all by hand, using small chisel and files called rifflers. I carve at about 2 or 3 hours at a time, although sometimes I’ll put in a full day. Hard to do as it’s pretty tiring work. Imagine swinging a 2-pound hammer all day – you get tired!

It probably will take me a good 45 to 60 hours total to finish this using just hand tools. If I were using air tools, it’d go monstrously faster, but I like the pace of hand tools.

I raised the hand on our right up so you can now see the child’s belly and the top of her thighs. It looked way too ponderous the way it was before. You actually have more latitude for moving elements around than you’d think, and I push the envelope as far as I can!

I wanted her to look like a mother, not a girl-friend, so I made the chins swing away from each other – this way they are pressing foreheads together, and that’s it. I also took away a lot of that heavy hair on the side.

Now it seems to me to be a double entendre: is it a child imagining being held by her mother? Or is it a mother holding her child? Or maybe it’s a child imagining herself as an adult, or dreaming an angel. I like to think of it as a mother transmitting her innate wisdom to her child. Now you make up your story about it!

See more artwork at AngelaTreatLyonART.com

Are You Living Your Heart’s Deepest Dreams NOW? No? Why Not?

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Way back in November of 1981, after almost 20 years of having been a fine art potter, I decided to take the next step. It was time to make the move from making pots – upon which I drew very detailed designs in black and white – to carving 3-d figures in stone.

I had just been introduced to carving-stone by an old friend, and I was hot to trot. I couldn’t stop thinking or dreaming about it, and I even now had stone in my studio just sitting there begging to be carved.

From everywhere and everyone I heard, “Oh, Angela! You shouldn’t stop making your beautiful pots!” But I just knew it was Right for me.

Although I had been supporting myself and my 2 kids on my pots, and it was really scary to think of selling off my clay, glazes, kilns and all the stuff having to do with creating my pots, on December 25th, I told my kids that I had decided I’d stick with making pots for one more year so I could have a smooth transition into carving stone.

Oops – nevermind that plan!

And at 11:43 am on December 31st, I was slammed not once, but twice in a car wreck that completely totalled my car and left my neck and back so damaged that I was told I’d probably never walk again.

Lying in bed, drowsy from pain pills, I heard…

Lyon-sc-hula-kahiko-gourd-700-sigOne was saying that it was such a shame I’d never walk again, and if I’d never decided to quit making pots I’d still be OK, shame on me, why couldn’t I ever take anyone’s advice.

Another very firmly told the first one to stuff itself in its own dark place, and that it was because I had something to Do that I had to continue carving–even if I had to do it sitting down.

And yet another that told both of them just to be still, please, because the universe is a mutable essence, and if we could all work together, we could heal my body and not only get me walking again but carving and carrying big rocks around as if I was a 20-year old again.

I loved that last voice!

It made me feel so supported and so powerful. From the inside out. And although I was flat on my back and in too much pain to move, I felt as if I had a rocket inside of me that simply had to take off, that wouldn’t allow me to sit and stew or feel sorry for myself or stop seeking assistance in getting back on my feet.

I went to 3 ‘experts’

All of them wore long, grave faces, closed their office doors sooo carefully and quietly, sat down and gazed at me solemnly across their desks. They each spoke in hushed tones, as if I was already one foot under.

By the third one, I was livid. Boiling. I refused to put up with their cemented belief that I’d be crippled for the rest of my life.

I fired all three, went home feeling curiously light, happy, and utterly trusting that someone would show up for me.

Ahhh…Real help!

The very next day, I was introduced quite by chance (right!) to a chiropractor who lived a half a block away! Within 6 weeks he had me walking again, and most of the aches and pains and stiffnesses and knots in my neck and back gone.

Needless to say, I decided to uphold my original choice to move on from pots. The Universe had spoken, and I listened. I’ve been carving stone ever since, going into painting and illustrating on the side.

Walk your dreams

And I’m going to continue to talk my walk, and continue updating you on the techniques, systems and tactics I take and that I hear about and think are great that will help you walk your dreams.

Why is it so important that we do so now, of all times?

Because if we get caught in oh-the-economy-is-bad-woe-is-me-what-am-I-gonna-do BS, we’ll stay there.

Focus

You know as well as I do that we get that upon which we focus. Focus with me and all the other aligned people who are knowingly, trustingly, joyously creating life the way we want to live: conscious, conscious, conscious!

It’s Time–NOW. We have enough information about how to create what we want, we have enough resources and connections to build the world we want, and we have the guts, the minds and the heart. I refuse to even imagine our not doing it.

Look at interruptions and pain and illness and obstacles as messages, not blocks.

Look at them and ask, “where is the energy in this that I could use to create something better–for myself, my loved ones and my world?”

Then ask…

What is the first thing I can do, what is the first step I can take towards something I’d rather have or be or do?

What can I say in my mind that will keep me from the perpetual downward spiral of why-me and oh-I’m-stuck by asking yourself what would I rather see/feel/do/have?

What is my next step on my continued path, holding the space for the Dream?

Why ask these Qs?

Because it’s right here, right now, and all we need to do is let it expand within our hearts and minds and lives.

INSPIRATION

Here are SOME of the most radical, most heart-swelling videos I’ve ever seen.

Here is how one jaded young man woke up and changed his mind and has now helped thousands of people all over the world get clean water.

Not only that, but he has developed an amazing charity structure that allows ALL–yes, 100%–of the monies donated be used for the intended people and purposes.
http://ebenpagan.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/charity-water-replay/
Please do pass this one around!

Top Image: Leaf Bowl and Fish Bowl, porcelain, © Lyon 1981 (sold)
Sculpture: Hula Kahiko, soapstone 24″ x 13″ x 6″ © Lyon 1999 (sold)

See more at AngelaTreatLyonART.com

Angela’s Art, Happiness and SpiritCardCenter.com!

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I’m so happy to be able to tell you that my images have been added to a wonderful freebie greeting card site!

You can see (and use) them for FREE right HERE at SpiritCardCenter.com.

I looked a long time before I found this site – I wanted to be proud to be a part of it, and finally found it last month. I’m delighted to be a part of the Spirit Card Center Collection – I invite you to bookmark it!

Fun trivia

Did you know that the kingdom of Bhutan has a policy of supporting its people’s Gross National Happiness. Much cooler than Gross National Products, eh?

What if we all decided we’d care for, build and support our Gross Individual Happiness?

 
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