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Janet Coyne

 

I am a former business executive who after a serious illness undertook a change in life.  I commenced studies at the Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School in 1999 and commenced  full time studies at the Sculpture School in 2001.  In 2003 I began to assist in teaching at the school my studies continued with Tom Bass until 2005 when I established my own studio.

 

My first commission was to sculpt a life size “portrait doll” for a couple of their child; which was subsequently taken for the grandparents of the child living in Italy. I was invited to exhibit in Women in Sculpture  2000 and selected as a finalist in the Great SouthLand Art Prize and the Willoughby Art Prize 2003.  Other exhibitions include Blue Mountains Sculptors Exhibition, The Sculptor’s Society Exhibition Sydney as well as exhibiting in major garden shows over the last few years.

 

 

Artist’s Statement

 

I do not know how I came to sculpture as I never did art at school.  Perhaps it’s better to say that sculpture came to me.  For me;   sculpture is food for the soul - it nourishes, invigorates, challenges & nurtures, humbles & inspires; it returns you to your very essence

 

Inspiration for my pieces come from all around: a leaf or seed pod, the play of light and shadow on an object, a glimpse of something from the corner of my eye, a face, a painting or just a feeling of something waiting to be discovered.

 

To try and take something as intangible as a thought or a feeling and create a 3dimensional interpretation of that is the challenge and the reward.  Whether they be figurative or abstract they should be from the heart and give pleasure to the senses.

 

 

 

Exhibitions                                                                                          Events

 

1999-2004  Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School                    2002 Sydney Garden Show - Darling Harbour
          Student Exhibition                                                          2003 Gardening Australia Live - Homebush
2000 Women in Sculpture   - ABC                                                  Springtime Flora Festival - Gosford
2003 Finalist: The Great SouthLand Art Prize       2004 Springtime Flora Festival - Gosford   
         Finalist: Willoughby Art Prize                                                 
         Blue Mountains Sculptors Exhibition
         Sculptors Society Exhibition - Domain                                   
         Sculptors Society Exhibition - Market Place                          

2004 Sculptors Society Exhibition - Darling Park

         Sculptors Society Exhibition - Domain

2005 Sculpture 2005 Exhibition –    Global Gallery

                                                         --    Tom Bass Sculpture

                                                                Studio School

         Gallery Blackheath

         Eden Gardens Sculpture Walk

2006Sculptors Society Exhibition – Darling Park

 - Australia Square

        Sculpture in the Vineyard      - Wollombi

        BMAC E-Merge Exhibition  - Katoomba

        BMAC  LGA Exhibition       - Peppers Resort Leura

2007Robyn Woodward Gallery    - Glenbrook

 

Awards

 

2004 ‘Symphony’– Prize winner Sculptors Society Exhibition