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Bonnie Sir Kegian

Hunters Moon Studio
Winnsboro, Texas
Cell:  214-707-6663

huntersmoonfarm@gmail.com
www.huntersmoonfarmhouse.com

Artist’s Statement: 

From the time I could read, I always had a yen for mythology, archeology, poetry and tales of ancient times.  Sculpture is the synthesis of all these passions.  I see myself as a storyteller in stone.  Stone sculpture is better than any words.  Carving is equal parts physical labor and a labor of love.  I enjoy hunting for the perfect piece of marble, alabaster or limestone on which to tell my story.  I love the feel of the tools used to bring each stone story to life.  When the piece nears completion, I close my eyes and feel its silhouette, details and textures.  If my fingers are pleased, my story is told.  Because I am a direct carver, joy lies in the discovery that unfolds as the figure emerges.  As my sculpting mentor, Gerald Lynch, said: Follow your bliss and let the marble chips fly. 

Mermaid

About the Sculptures (all weights and sizes are approximate): 
Mermaid: When I saw this aqua/white marble with one side completely roughed into a coral-like texture by water coursing through the mine, I knew it would have to be a sea-girl.  A snippet of a T.S. Eliot poem came back to me: “I have heard the mermaids singing each to each…I have seen them riding seaward on the waves combing the white hair of the waves back when the wind blows the water white and black.” 
I thought of Gauguin’s South Sea Maidens when carving her flowing hair like sand ripples—a sea anemone and seashells caught in her hair.  The tilt of her heard is like a figurehead on the prow of a sailing ship and her face like a Hokkaido pearl diver.
Colorado Yule Marble w/o base. 16”H x 10” W x 13”D 

Price on Request

Sea Carved Whelk

Artist’s Biography: 

Born in Hollywood, California, in 1940, I returned to my mother’s NE Texas home place in 1995.  I graduated from USC with a major in both Education and English Literature. After teaching a number of years, I became a photojournalist for several California newspapers in the mid-70’s and ‘80’s.  B/W photography led me to the filed of hand-tinting some of my photographs in oils.  I also kept up with my writing and in 1992, while researching a character for a historical romance, I began sculpture classes.  I participated in several  Marble Symposiums in Marble, Colorado.  Now the romance novel gathers marble dust for I never went back to serious writing.  My love for sculptural shapes informs my photography as well.  My husband and I live full-time in Texas except when we take extended trips in our motorhome across the USA, Canada and Mexico.  My art works are found in collections in Colorado, Washington, California and Texas.  

Southern Shell: Searching a Gulf Coast beach for a perfect whelk, I found many wave-tossed broken whelks.  Gradually it dawned on me these less-than-perfect shells had more personality than the precise specimens I’d been seeking.  The plentiful sand-scoured whelks reminded me of flowers.  I arranged them in my studio and one day, I carved this Southern Shell.   Colorado Yule Marble w/o base.  17”H x15”W x 13”D  50 Lbs.
Price on Request

Khmer/Angkor Wat Bas-relief Figure: Fragment Series
As I walked along an Aegean beach I found a little limestone shard fallen from Athena’s Temple on the cliff above.  I daydreamed of what it would be like to travel the world and find pieces fallen from ancient buildings, washed up by ocean waves or hidden in jungle vines.  This figure is such a dream piece I “found” near Angkor Wat in South East Asia.
Texas Limestone w/limestone base.  26”1/2”H x 17”W x 12”D 65 Lbs (includes base).

Price on Request

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Selected Exhibits:
Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach
Redstone Gallery, Redstone, Colorado
Estelle Stair Gallery, Rockport, Texas
Main Street Gallery, Winnsboro, Texas
Trails Country Center for the Arts, Texas

 
Affiliations: 
Texas Sculpture Association
Texas Society of Sculptors
Texas Photographic Society