Sue Taves believe that when we open ourselves to art and it touches us, we get a spark, something indefinable, from the experience. This connection is the reason she keeps creating sculpture.
When carving, Taves captures the natural essence of the stone in the choice of her design and discovers cohesive forms that use shape and texture to translate feelings, create moods and invite people to be drawn in. Each piece gradually takes on a life of its own through the stone-carving process, sometimes revealing itself early, and other times not until the final polish. Each work develops its own personality and helps create its own story.
Sue works in many different types of stone and many different themes. She finds the poetry in the lines in the human body to be a source of inspiration, and other sculpture are inspired by beauty and rhythms found in nature, and some themes explore ideas or feelings. Taves works on a small intimate scale as well as large garden sculpture.
Most often she works on multiple sculptures at any one time, sometimes these sculptures are all from a series of work, and other sculptures just come alive from independent inspiration. Taves states: “I try to stay open to this inspiration as it lays the foundation for using art as a language to connect with ourselves as well as with each other.”
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