Mosaic Sculptures and Sand Painting
Flamenco Dancer in Red and Green
A sand painting by Robert Winfree inspired by a dance performance seen during our travels. Painted on stretched and acrylic primed artist’s canvas using natural sands, silts, and clays with water-based PVA and acrylic adhesives. Colors are derived entirely from natural sand minerals
Finished Size: 15" x 30"
Completed: 2020
Fall Color at Wonder Lake
A sand painting by Robert Winfree based on our fall trips into Alaska’s Denali National Park. Painted on stretched and acrylic primed artist’s canvas using natural sands and silts from 22 locations, with a water-based PVA adhesive. Colors are derived entirely from natural sand minerals including calcium carbonate, quartz, feldspars, garnets, glauconite, hematite, limonite, magnetite, pyroxene and various other mafics. Sand sources included: Alaska (Anchorage street sand, Nenana River, Whittier), California (Red Rock Canyon), China (various marbles, pyroxene), Florida (Anna Maria Island shell sand and sugar quartz sand, Key Biscayne), France (ochres), Hawaii (Maui), Italy (Ercolano), Massachusetts (limestone/chalk), Michigan (Munising, Hamlin), Nevada (Valley of Fire), South Carolina (Foley Beach), Ukraine (glauconite), Utah (Coral Pink Sand Dunes), Washington State (Ho River), Wisconsin (Dells).
Finished Size: 15" x 30"
Completed: 2020
Finished Size: 15" x 30"
Completed: 2020
Fang
This sand painting was inspired by Jack London’s book, White Fang. The figure and landscape are based on a wolf encounter in the Alaska Range of Denali National Park.
Painted on artist’s canvas board using natural mineral sands and silts collected from 22 locations worldwide, with a water-based PVA adhesive.
*The artist’s original study, a 9”x12” sand painting, is now in the collection of the Sand Museum in the Korolev, Russia library
Finished size: 16" x 20"
Completed: 2020
Painted on artist’s canvas board using natural mineral sands and silts collected from 22 locations worldwide, with a water-based PVA adhesive.
*The artist’s original study, a 9”x12” sand painting, is now in the collection of the Sand Museum in the Korolev, Russia library
Finished size: 16" x 20"
Completed: 2020
Two Bears Crossing Halo River
A sand painting produced on artist’s canvas board using natural sands, silts, and clays from 26 locations worldwide, with a water-based PVA adhesive. The setting is the artists encounter with a brown bear and cub in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. The sow approached our group closely to save her cub from pursuit by a large adult male, a successful tactic.
Migrating Alaska Red Salmon
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The Migrating Red Salmon was one of a series of mosaics that Robert made from found and repurposed objects. The mosaic tiles were cut from broken and tumbled ceramic dinnerware. The sunken log in the lower left corner is a weathered piece of petrified wood, on which is caught a brass fishing lure found in an Alaskan river. The eye is a copper nut lost off a marine engine.
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Sunset Over Mount Susitna, Alaska (Sleeping Lady)
Every night, we watch the sun set over Mount Susitna from our studio in Anchorage, Alaska. This piece one of a growing series of representational sand paintings composed of natural mineral sands from around the world. To color the scenery without use of paints, dyes or inks, we used natural sands collected from sixteen beaches, rivers and dunes across Alaska, the US, Europe, and Asia.
Finished painting size: 8" H X 18" Wide
Complete: 2019
Finished painting size: 8" H X 18" Wide
Complete: 2019
Alaska Heirloom Sausage by Climax Quake Company
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The idea for Alaska's Heirloom Sausage came from the feeling that we'd just been put through a meat grinder ourselves. Alaska experienced a moderately large M7.2 earthquake on November 30, 2018. While no-one was seriously injured, many friends and neighbors lost countless objects. Some lost their homes and businesses. Knowing that Robert was working with mosaics at the time, friends provided us with many bucket loads of broken dinnerware, glass doors, mirrors, ceramic artworks and heirlooms that we meticulously cleaned and sorted before use. The grinder’s brand name "Climax" was apropos.
Finished size: 12" H x 19"W x 8" D Completed: 2019 |
Earth is Like a Frog in a Slowly Warming Pot
The Frog in a Pot holds our globe above hot coals and boiling waters. This sculpture is made from found and repurposed objects and symbolically represents the issues associated with climate instability and warming.
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Fried Egg with Bacon
Fried egg with bacon was made with discarded and repurposed objects including broken yellow and white dishes, stained glass, cast iron and epoxy.
Finished Size: 13"W x 3"H x 9"D
Completed: 2019
Finished Size: 13"W x 3"H x 9"D
Completed: 2019
Today's Catch
Today's Catch is another whimsical piece created by reworking objects originally found during a trip into a second-hand store.
Finished size: 10"W x 21"H x 4"D
Completed: 2019
Finished size: 10"W x 21"H x 4"D
Completed: 2019
Guardian Angel over Anchorage, the "City of Lights and Flowers"
Guardian Angel was composed of debris recovered from the November 30, 2018 Alaska earthquake and other repurposed discards, including a shattered wall mirror and an antique frame (missing its original artwork). Although our beautiful Angel lost parts of her own arm and leg in the earthquake, she looks protectively over Anchorage, the "City of Lights and Flowers."
Dimensions: 26"W x 33"H x 3"D
Completed: 2019
Dimensions: 26"W x 33"H x 3"D
Completed: 2019