Sculpting for me is a combination of deep meditation and problem solving.  I often 

look at my watch and find that five or six hours have passed by, in what seems a

half hour's time.

I find that the ideas for my works come out of dreams and day dreams.  I try to

always have a pencil and small sketch book handy.

When sculpting an idea from a sketch-  faces, expressions, line lyricism, along with the dramatic play of light and shadows, emerge and inspire one another.  

I find it to be a magical process of "the eyes teaching the hands".

With a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance, my careers in the opera

world and currently, musical theater, greatly influence the dramatic elements

of what my eyes want to see in a piece as I'm creating it.

My mother was a singer, dancer and painter.  One of my earliest memories, was captured in a photograph taken by my father.  

I was two years old and my mother was painting at an easel on the back patio of our house.  She said that I would try to  stand next to her and want to draw or crayon

on the canvas but her easel was too high and I was too small.

The photograph was taken from behind, of the two of us on our back patio.  She is 

standing at her easel painting and I am standing beside her, crayon in hand

"creating" on my own small easel that my parents had bought for me.

 

My father was a great encourager of us both.

      -KVR