LANE TOMPKINS - Sculptor

Whidbey Island sculptor Lane Tompkins carved his first piece at age 20, but says he didn’t seriously start carving until age 60! His work is sometimes representational, sometimes abstract. His subject matter ranges from horses to camels to people to plants. He is currently working in the medium of Carrera marble—in which he sometimes puts dozens of holes to make them light enough to hang on a wall, though he also works in limestone and bronze. He begins often by carving or modeling a free-flowing organic form, from which more realistic elements may then emerge. His guiding phrase in his marble sculpture is “the lightness  of stone!”

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