George Wilhelm
George Wilhelm Sculpture Studio
1210 Cherry Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368
Telephone: (415) 420-7156
E-mail: g@georgewilhelm.com
Web site: www.georgewilhelm.com
entitled “Woman’s Torso Pendant Brooch”. 2 ¼” ht. cast sterling silver
Demonstration:
Tour participants will see sculpture and jewelry in various states of completion: wax originals, waxes cast from rubber molds mde from the originals and finished pieces in bronze, silver, gold and even plastic. I will show my tools and demonstrate how to use them. Also, I will talk about mold making and the casting process.
Directions to studio:
My studio is at the corner of Cherry and L Streets in Port Townsend. Park alongside the road on either street. The studio will be set up in the carport on the L Street side of the house.
Artist statement:
“I make figurative bronze sculpture. My work is realistic and often fragmentary. It depicts themes of birth and death, the mother-child relationship, crucifixion and androgyny. Using body fragments allows me to combine figures in ways impossible with complete forms and lets me join abstraction with figuration.
I also make jewelry: faces, hands and small figures adapted into pendants, rings and earrings.
I work in wax. I like its intimacy. I can hold the piece as I work on it instead of having it anchored to a pedestal. Making sculpture has its moments of artistry, but mostly it is a craft and a discipline. It can be grounding for me, a meditation.”