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Scott McKay All Sculptures Sun Bench Number on Map D Artist Scott McKay Material Corten Steel Installation Date January 1, 2018 Learn About the Artist Wendy Wilkins, the patron who purchased Mother Earth and commissioned the Sun Bench to accompany it, thought it would be lovely to add a couple more Scott McKay one-of-a-kind benches to create Mother Earth’s living room where a whole family or group of friends could gather. So, she worked with the Sculpture Forest to commission two new nature inspired benches to complete the set and create Mother Earth's living room. In 2018 the Haliburton Sculpture Forest teamed up with the Haliburton Village BIA (business Improvement Area) to create the Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition. This featured the display of six sculptures on the main street from Ontario artists from June to October. McKay’s Mother Earth was one of them. Mother Earth is McKay’s vision of the classical mother figure who is one with the tree of life. More Photos Previous Next

Nyasha Mabika All Sculptures Happy Hippo Number on Map 42 Artist Nyasha Mabika Material Polished Springstone Installation Date November 30, 2024 Learn About the Artist The Happy Hippo sculpture was created using springstone from Zimbabwe. This sculpture was exhibited at the ZimArt Rice lake Gallery, just outside of Peterborough. The owner, Fran Fearnley retired in the fall of 2023, closing her gallery permanently. She donated the Happy Hippo to the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. The Happy Hippo was part of the Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition 2024 and was installed in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest in November 2024. More Photos Previous Next

Scott McKay All Sculptures Fire Bench Number on Map F Artist Scott McKay Material Corten Steel Installation Date January 1, 2020 Learn About the Artist Wendy Wilkins, the patron who purchased Mother Earth and commissioned the Sun Bench to accompany it, thought it would be lovely to add a couple more Scott McKay one-of-a-kind benches to create Mother Earth’s living room where a whole family or group of friends could gather. So, she worked with the Sculpture Forest to commission two new nature inspired benches - Forest Screen Bench and Fire Bench - to complete the set and create Mother Earth's living room. In 2018 the Haliburton Sculpture Forest teamed up with the Haliburton Village BIA (business Improvement Area) to create the Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition. This featured the display of six sculptures on the main street from Ontario artists from June to October. McKay’s Mother Earth was one of them. Mother Earth is McKay’s vision of the classical mother figure who is one with the tree of life. More Photos Previous Next

Nyasha Mabika was born on July 2, 1974 in Mutare Manicaland Province, in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. He was the 4th born in a family of 6 children. Nyasha attended both primary and secondary school in Bvumba, a beautiful mountainous region, near the Mozambique border. When Nyasha completed high school in 1991 he began visiting local sculpting co-operatives and assisting sculptors with sanding and polishing their sculptures. Having decided stone sculpting was a career he wished to pursue, Nyasha moved to St. Mary's in Chitungwiza to begin a formal apprenticeship with his late cousin Winston Magura. Winston taught Nyasha and they worked together from 1994 to 1996. In 1996, Nyasha had completed his apprenticeship and was looking for new challenges. He joined a group of other artists and founded an arts co-operative, the Chitungwiza Arts Centre, where he remained an active member until 2016. He now works from his home studio in Epworth. Nyasha goes to the mine himself to select stone, which is his first source of information. He enjoys working with hard stones such as Leopard Rock, Springstone and Opal. Attracted to wildlife, Nyasha says that is what most often he sees in the raw stone. Nyasha enjoys sculpting hippos and abstract pieces. His sculptures have sold to galleries and collectors from Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Canada. ZimArt started to represent Nyasha in Canada in 2017. < All Artists Nyasha Mabika ABOUT SCULPTOR Artist Bio Nyasha Mabika was born on July 2, 1974 in Mutare Manicaland Province, in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. He was the 4th born in a family of 6 children. Nyasha attended both primary and secondary school in Bvumba, a beautiful mountainous region, near the Mozambique border. When Nyasha completed high school in 1991 he began visiting local sculpting co-operatives and assisting sculptors with sanding and polishing their sculptures. Having decided stone sculpting was a career he wished to pursue, Nyasha moved to St. Mary's in Chitungwiza to begin a formal apprenticeship with his late cousin Winston Magura. Winston taught Nyasha and they worked together from 1994 to 1996. In 1996, Nyasha had completed his apprenticeship and was looking for new challenges. He joined a group of other artists and founded an arts co-operative, the Chitungwiza Arts Centre, where he remained an active member until 2016. He now works from his home studio in Epworth. Nyasha goes to the mine himself to select stone, which is his first source of information. He enjoys working with hard stones such as Leopard Rock, Springstone and Opal. Attracted to wildlife, Nyasha says that is what most often he sees in the raw stone. Nyasha enjoys sculpting hippos and abstract pieces. His sculptures have sold to galleries and collectors from Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Canada. ZimArt started to represent Nyasha in Canada in 2017. Installed Sculptures Previous Sculpture Next Sculpture

Artists The Sculpture Forest features works from artists across the globe. Aaron Galbraith Carolanne MacLean Charmaine Lurch Doug Stephens Ian LaBlance Jiří Genzer John Shaw-Rimmington Marianne Reim Metalgenesis: Don Dickson & Amy Doolittle Peter Wehrspann Scott McKay Tarzan Sithole Andrew Rothfischer Carole Turner Darlene Bolahood George Pratt Jake Mol John Beachli Kevin Lockau Mary Anne Barkhouse Michael Belmore Phillip Vander Weg Simon Chidharara Tizirai Gumbere Brett Davis Charles O'Neil Don Frost Gord Peteran Jared Tait John McKinnon Leo Sepa Mary Ellen Farrow Nyasha Mabika Richard Shanks Susan Low-Beer William Lishman

Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Image Gallery 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2019 2018 1 Contact Artist for Pricing Carapace Pillar Michelle Cieloszczyk Read More 3 Contact Artist for Pricing Brenna Donna Mayne Read More 5 Part of Sculpture Forest Collection Double Take Carolanne MacLean Read More 2 $1,500.00 Sustenance Jennifer Anne Kelly Read More 4 Sold Oil Tanker Obelisk Brendan Duggan Read More 6 $4,000.00 A Flower Szonja Vucsetics Read More 1 Contact Artist for Pricing Athena Brett Davis Read More 3 $2,800.00 Parallel Composition Éric Tardif Read More 5 $3,500.00 Art of Noise Mark Puigmarti Read More 2 $1,800.00 Take Flight Jennifer Anne Kelly Read More 4 $3,800.00 Black Reflection Robert Wehkamp Read More 6 Part of Sculpture Forest Collection Depth Don Frost Read More 1 $2,800.00 Girl at the Fountain Tonya Hart Read More 3 $2,100.00 Vitessence David Cross Read More 5 $750.00 Virtual Reali-Kitty Thoreau Bakker Read More 2 $15,000.00 Dancers Elise Muller Read More 4 $1,900.00 Earth and Sky Julie Campagna Read More 6 Sold - Part of Sculpture Forest Collection DAS BUCH XXIII Marianne Reim Read More 2018 Exhibition Guide 2018 marked the first Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition. 6 artists from across Canada submitted pieces. Browse the Collection and Guide here. 1 Sold - Part of Sculpture Forest Collection Mother Earth Scott McKay Read More 3 $2,500.00 Layers Darrell Markewitz Read More 5 $800.00 Lissome 5 Andrew Rothfischer Read More 2 $4,000.00 This Side Up #9, “Shall We Dance” Michael Truelove Read More 4 $9,850.00 Sun Sisters Tim Dolman Read More 6 $20,000.00 Weeping Gargoyle Julie Campagna Read More Self Guided Tours Use the PocketSights app to locate each of the 2023 DHSE Sculptures! 1 Contact Artist for Pricing Grow Together Eric Tardiff Read More 3 Contact Artist for Pricing Aerial Mark Puigmarti Read More 5 Contact Artist for Pricing Abstract 7 Elise Muller Read More 7 Contact Artist for Pricing Night Szonja Vucsetics Read More 2 $2,800.00 Orange Bloom Kristi Chen Read More 4 $1,800.00 Innocence Carolanne MacLean Read More 6 $3,400.00 + HST Retrieving Courage Kim Collins Read More Self Guided Tours Use the PocketSights app to locate each of the 2024 DHSE Sculptures! 1 $18,000.00 The Owl and the Pussycat George Pratt Read More 3 $4200.00 Nature Prevails Mark Puigmarti Read More 5 $4500.00 The Gatekeeper Elise Muller Read More 7 $2000.00 Oracle Rosalinde Baumgartner Read More 2 Not for Sale VR Lion Thoreau Bakker Read More 4 Not for Sale The Happy Hippo Nyasha Mabika Read More 6 $5900.00 Annie Carolanne MacLean Read More 8 $2000.00 Red Woman Breanna Shanahan Read More

2024 < All Sculptures 2024 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Not for Sale The Happy Hippo Nyasha Mabika The Happy Hippo The Happy Hippo sculpture was created using springstone from Zimbabwe. This sculpture was exhibited at the ZimArt Rice Lake Gallery, just outside of Peterborough. The owner, Fran Fearnley retired last fall, closing her gallery permanently. She donated the Happy Hippo to the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. We thought it would be wonderful to have the Happy Hippo in downtown Haliburton for the exhibition. The Happy Hippo will be installed in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest in late October this year. Nyasha Mabika Nyasha Mabika was born in 1974 in Mutare, in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. He attended both primary and secondary school in Bvumba a beautiful mountainous region near the Mozambique border. When Nyasha completed high school in 1991 he began visiting local sculpting co-operatives and assisting sculptors with sanding and polishing their sculptures. Having decided stone sculpting was a career he wished to pursue, Nyasha moved to St. Mary's in Chitungwiza to begin a formal apprenticeship with his cousin Winston Magura. In 1996, Nyasha had completed his apprenticeship and was looking for new challenges. He joined a group of other artists to found an arts co-operative, the Chitungwiza Arts Centre, where he remained an active member until 2016. He now works from his home studio in Epworth. Nyasha goes to the mine himself to select stone, which is his first source of information. He enjoys working with hard stones like Leopard Rock, Springstone and Opal. Attracted to wildlife, Nyasha says that is what most often, he sees in the raw stone. His sculptures have sold to galleries and collectors from Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Canada. ZimArt started to represent Nyasha in Canada in 2017. Artist Contact Information Email : Website : www.chitungwizaarts.org Instagram: Facebook:

2025 < All Sculptures 2025 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Contact Artist for Pricing Botanical Canoe Garrett Gilbert Botanical Canoe Originally created as part of a performance art piece in which the artist portaged a carved canoe along forgotten portage trails. This canoes has been installed as lighting features and re-imagined as an opulent hanging chandeliers, like a Moroccan pierce-work light with a Canadian twist. Garrett Gilbart Garrett is a professional sculptor from Douro, east of Peterborough Ontario Initially studying welding and fabrication at Sir Sandford Fleming College, before receiving their BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, and briefly studied abroad at the Gerrit Rietveld Acadamie in Amsterdam. Garrett describes themself as “a carver of unnatural materials, instead of wood and stone, I carve discarded tools, car parts and other salvaged steel objects collected from the forests and scrapyards of rural Ontario”. Each piece is hand carved with a handheld plasma cutter, a welding torch used for melting and cutting steel. Often mounted on a computer controlled track system, Garrett’s skillful manipulation allows them to carve a variety of materials that are beyond the capabilities of even the most advanced robotics or lasers. Through the imaginative use of a precision fabrication tool the artist unlocks a dimension of creativity that cannot be achieved through the technical expertise of the engineer.Focusing on tools, their work explores the faded aura of utility and labour these tactile objects exude. Broken or discarded tools retain their symbolic dimension, as receptacles of personal narratives and cultural values, even after their initial purpose is spent.Additionally offering to create commissioned work using heirloom tools for individual clients to explore their shared history and relation to labour, craft and the tool object. Tools are often handed down well beyond their utilitarian function.The main body of work consists of salvaged metal hand tools, car parts and other steel objects intricately hand cut with historical textile patterns and motifs gleaned from the Arts and Craft movement. This practice is similarly grounded in a commitment to skilled craftsmanship, history and the accessibility of arts that the founders of the Arts and Craft movement were dedicated to. The most recent body of work is influenced by the silhouetted shapes of dead wildflowers over the long rural winter, these botanical forms are carefully re created, cut into the salvaged steel of object he finds in the forests, fields and local barns. The native floral elements spring from the steel of the found objects, merging the contexts of their existence within themselves. These objects range in size from a single screwdriver, to a full plow overgrown with a variety of local native wildflowers.This diverse body of work explores a range of relatable experiences with a dense web of access points for the viewer to engage with, both conceptually and emotionally.

2025 < All Sculptures 2025 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $1500.00 Bronze Sky Pods Danielle Reddick Bronze Sky Pods When I discovered bronze mesh, I realized that I could create forms that capture and return a light source. These forms gather life energy, balancing on the edge of sentience. Working with these materials as well as with universal light is a great privilege. With that in mind, I have created a bouquet of bronze pods. The notion is that they will look like giant golden blossoms in the raised garden beds. We cannot create light, we can radiate it, capture it and reflect it back. Danielle Reddick Danielle Reddick is a multimedia artist who has lived in Prince Edward County since 1984. From a very young age, it was clear that Danielle was an artist. Her current works reference the ethereal qualities she discovered in lithography at Queens University where she received an Hon BFA. Danielle has received a number of commissions for sculptures. She recently completed a large outdoor shrine for a client in Kingston. It is made from locally sourced stone and complete with solar lighting. In 2019, Danielle was commissioned by Glenwood Cemetery to create a WW2 soldier out of chicken wire. This project was funded by grants from the Prince Edward Arts Council and Huffs’ Estates Winery. This winter, Danielle manifested three large figures (10′-12’) of the Madonna, Maiden and Crone for a private collection. Over the years, Danielle has continued to make artworks outside of commissions. One of these, an art quilt, was displayed (with 5 other Canadian quilts) at quilt shows worldwide for 1 1/2 years representing Canada. Danielle was also a participant in the Royal Ontario Museum’s “Greenbelt Quilt of Possibilities.” Danielle has participated in many Juried shows including Art in the County, often winning Juror’s Choice awards and honourable mentions.

2025 < All Sculptures 2025 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $9500.00 Unity Undeniable Mark Puigmarti Unity Undeniable I, along with many Canadians, have recently witnessed, possibly for the first time in our lives, a remarkable national bonding. Stemming from recent American government policies imposed on Canada and the world, the reactions to these events have left everyone with a bewildered feeling. And then feelings wanting to defend and support each other. I thought it would be appropriate to create a mythical creature inspired by some of our renowned Canadian wildlife to represent this incredible patriotism we share by coming together. Mark Puigmarti What seems like lifetimes ago I was refrigeration and HVAC mechanic. Working on commercial industrial gizmos that kept things or people warm or cold, while usually experiencing the polar opposite temperature of whatever it was I was trying to rectify. It is a respectable trade that many men and some women make a respectable living at. However, as much as I tried to make the piping arrangements visually pleasing, orderly, and followable there was something lacking. It just never quite clicked with my persistent dream to follow a more artistic path. One day about half way into a 25-year run at HVACR, I made it my mission to try and change what seemed truly unchangeable. Slowly with a long list of coincidences, happy accidents and a load of sacrifices, particularly by my supportive wife Chris, positive results started to accumulate in the intended direction of working with hot metal. This did indeed take 10 years of incremental progression to end up at the beginning of a new and completely unrecognizable life and style. It is not lost on me to grasp the sheer improbability to do that mid-career, in that career, or any for that matter. That cord was cut 14 years ago now."

2025 < All Sculptures 2025 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $4000.00 Friends Marlene Kawalez Friends The connection we have with nature is beautifully represented in this sculpture. “Friends” is created with winterstone and mixed media. Marlene Kawalez For the past few years, I have been creating pieces that often explore themes of life, the reflection of time, and the peeling away of exterior layers to reveal internal intricacies. In many ways, it is an introspection into my personal journey and that of others that I was privy to observe. The purpose behind my work is to expose, express, and provide insight into the raw emotions involved in the journey of life through clay, wood, and glass. The application of wood and clay is essential as a direct conduit to the root of nature and our existence. Glass, in retrospect, represents the fragility of life and the continuity of movement and time.

2025 < All Sculptures 2025 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $1800.00 Soul of A Boy Carole Chaloupka Burton Soul of a Boy This work is part of the "Fragile Masculinity" series, inspired by men and boys who struggle to find acceptance for the more vulnerable parts of their natures in a world that often doesn’t make space for the softer incarnations of masculinity. In particular, this work is an art-based response to the loss of the artist’s younger brother, and the manifestation of her compassion and concern for the men and boys who feel pressured to abandon the more tender sides of their natures in order to conform. Sculpted in water-based clay, a mold was then made to cast subsequent limited editions. Carole Chaloupka Burton Carole received her Master of Fine Arts at Toronto’s OCAD University and her BA (Hons) at Sunderland University in her native North East England. Carole specializes in evocative portraiture and figurative sculpture that captures fleeting moments of inner reflection that are both deeply private, and vastly universal. Her sensitive expressive work explores the embodied experience of having memories, thoughts, emotions and intuition contained within our bodies, and seeks to give form to these invisible and difficult-to-articulate feelings and sensations. Themes within Carole’s work include vulnerability, meaning-making and our achingly bittersweet knowledge of the impermanence of embodied mortal life.