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Aaron Galbraith is a local Haliburton resident and landscaper extraordinaire. Aaron Galbraith Contact: galbraithaaron@gmail.com Aaron Galbraith has been either living or vacationing in the Haliburton region his entire life. He spent many summers living at his grandfathers cottage in the small community of West Guilford, before moving to Haliburton at the age of 7. Aaron has remained in the Haliburton Highlands, except for a brief stint of living in Toronto to go to school. He holds a degree from Humber College in Landscape Design and Horticulture. For over 14 years, Galbraith has been doing landscape work in the Haliburton area, and has a passion for creating unique landscapes using all materials, though he specializes in natural stone work. Aaron got his start in stonework at Don and Carole Finn's home, where he worked their gardens. < Back to Artists

Beaver by Haliburton Highlands Secondary School 2002 students with support from Mary Anne Barkhouse & Michael Belmore. Beaver Haliburton Highlands Secondary School 2002 Students with support from Mary Anne Barkhouse and Michael Belmore Name of Sculpture: The Beaver Materials: Cement and Aluminum Lamp Post Description: The beaver contemplates a lamp post Installation Date: August, 2002 Number on Map: 6 Go to Gallery About the Work: In the winter of 2002, the Haliburton Sculpture Forest contracted with the artists Mary Anne Barkhouse and Michael Belmore to be artists-in-residence in the Haliburton Highlands Secondary School and work with the senior art students. Michael and Mary Anne worked with the students in the winter and spring, teaching the process of creating public sculpture – from concept to drawings to models to creating the sculpture out of clay to making a plaster cast to casting the sculpture in cement to installation. The lamp post was donated to the students for their sculpture by the Municipality of Minden Hills who were replacing their lamp posts on the main street of Minden. < Back to Sculptures

Jake Mol is a Canadian visual artist and water colour painter. Jake Mol Website: tamarackstudios.com Jake Mol first received public interest across North America in 1964 with a published portrait of J.F. Kennedy. Since going public in 1969 he had received many awards in juried shows, and by 2015 participated in over 90 solo/duo shows and numerous group shows. Jake was an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, a signature member of Toronto Watercolour Society, a charter member of the Vodka Painters of Canada and a member or associate member of numerous North American art societies. He was a respected and sought after painter, instructor and juror. He taught at the Haliburton School of the Arts for many years. Three of his larger than life size charcoal portraits of 1880's Indian Chief's "Joseph", "Santanta" and "Little Raven" are displayed in the Crazy Horse Museum in South Dakota. Jake loved the outdoors, the Canadian Shield and worldwide scenes can be found in many of his on- location paintings. Jake's art work, mostly in transparent watercolour since 1975, started to pioneer with the use of a special GoldenVarnish for paper works, which eliminates the use of glass as protection, on over one thousand watercolour paintings since 1997. Several of these have been exposed continuously in outdoor sculptures for many years in the Canadian climate. He pioneered the use of a board called Dura Plast, light weight and sturdy, which makes the varnished painting immune to mould and ultra violet light. This method is now slowly being accepted and used by watercolour artists of note across the world. In addition to his long career as a painter, Jake created a series of whimsical sculptures made with reclaimed materials and old farm implements. His work “The Homesteaders” , which he donated to the Haliburton Sculpture Forest, brings together his work as a sculptor and a painter. Jake’s work can be found in many private and corporate collections in North and South America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Jake passed away in 2018 at 83 years old, surrounded by his family. "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a preserved body, but rather to skid out, having had love and joy with a partner, family, friends, and associates; experiencing good and bad, learning, loving, painting, discovering, detecting, travelling, enjoying scenery, harvesting, fishing, until physically worn out, while remembering the good life, and wishing those left behind the best that future will allow them." - Jake Mol < Back to Artists

Zimbabwean sculptor Tizirai Gumbere's work has an unmistakable trademark of contrasted handshakes - a symbol of inter-racial unity. Together We Achieve the Extraordinary Artist: Tizirai Gumbere Name of Sculpture: Together We Achieve the Extraordinary Material: Common Opal Height: .7 metres, Length: 1.7 metres Description: A contrasting handshake – one hand and arm dark polished stone and the other hand and arm is pale and unpolished Installation Date: November 2020 Number on Map: 35 Go to Gallery About the Artist: Tizirai, known by his colleagues as “Gwama”, started sculpting in 1992 and was unwavering in his pursuit for excellence. During his lifetime, Tizirai’s work had an unmistakable trademark of contrasted handshakes. The handshake sculptures were the expression of his need to see inter-racial unity, he shared Martin Luther’s dream of seeing a world where people are not judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. < Back to Sculptures

Dough Stephens is a Canadian sculptor and stone carver who works full-time carving sculptures for the local and North American market. Doug Stephens Doug Stephens has been carving stone since taking a course in Haliburton in 1998. Years before he had worked in the set department for film and television and then went on to study sculpture in Halifax at the Nova Scotia School of Fine Art, but had not settled on a medium that had any real meaning for him. That changed when he studied in Haliburton with George Pratt, who then invited him to spend some months in Vancouver apprenticing at his studio. Later that year, Doug opened his own studio in Muskoka and has had his work shown in galleries in Bala, Gravenhurst, Rosseau and Haliburton. Every summer since then he has taught at the Haliburton School of The Arts. In May of 2001 he moved his studio to Belleville and began working as a full-time sculptor for the Campbell Monument Company, carving sculptures for the local and North American market. < Back to Artists

Female figure turning to look back Double Take Artist: Carolanne MacLean Name of Sculpture: Double Take Material: Winterstone Height: 20 inches Description: A female figure with arms outstretched as she turns to look back. Installation Date: October 2022 Number on Map: 40 Go to Gallery About the Work This piece is a rendition of a female figure in green Winterstone; a torso with arms outstretched as the woman turns to look back. My interest is in the fundamental gesture of the figure as I try to create a rhythmic flow through the form and capture a moment in time and the fullness of the female body. Winterstone is a dry powder mix which when mixed with water produces a clay-like consistency. Initially it can be modeled easily like clay. As it starts to harden it can be carved with soft carving tools. After 24 hours it can be carved with hard carving tools. < Back to Sculptures

Das Buch XXIII is a part of artist Marianne Reim's series of books cut from steel. Das Buch XXIII Artist: Marianne Reim Name of Sculpture: Das Buch XXIII Material: Steel and chain mail Height: 1 metre, Width: 1.3 metres, Depth: 1 metre Description: A book constructed out of steel plates with chain mail pages is mounted on a large steel table Installation Date: 2019 Number on Map: 34 Go to Gallery About the Work: Since 1994, Marianne Reim has been working on a series of books (DAS BUCH) cut from steel. They currently number 70. The books are personal interpretations of her history within a larger cultural history. These books contain steel pages, which can be turned and read, and they are bound. The antitheses of paperbacks, these books are constructed through a process of cutting, burning, and welding into the sheets of steel. In this manner, Marianne is able to inscribe a universal language through form and line. The content of the books emerges from memories. For example, DAS BUCH 10 was inspired by a visit to the Berlin Wall. DAS BUCH 18 contains a diary-like entry, another one in Latin reflects Marianne’s interest in the universality of language. Artist Statement: The specific forms of my work float on the surface of a well of memory. I create discreet objects, objects in series and installation. My preferred material is steel. In my constructions, the material wears its identity through rough-cut edges, visible welds and an undisguised slabness. I may combine them with glass, stone, text, and photographs. By cutting, burning and welding, experience and emotion are melded into steel. < Back to Sculptures

One of the first sculptures in the forest was, "A Walk in the Woods in Haliburton" by Mary Ellen Farrow, in limestone & bronze. A Walk in the Woods in Haliburton Mary Ellen Farrow Name of Sculpture: A Walk in the Woods in Haliburton Materials: limestone and bronze Description: Stylized hiker with broad rounded lines, holding a bronze cast of a maple leaf, 1.5 metres high Installation Date: June, 2001 Number on Map: 12 Go to Gallery About the Work: Mary Ellen sculpted “A Walk in the Woods in Haliburton”, at the studio of local sculptor John Beachli. The limestone and bronze piece stands 1.5 meters high and has been mounted on a granite base. The broad rounded lines conform to the natural character of the stone. The hiker, holding a bronze cast of a maple leaf , shows movement and emotion, but demands reaction. The contrast of the limestone to the summer forest creates a pleasant surprise as you approach it, but in winter blends in with a top hat and arm-full of snow. Artist Statement: I work almost exclusively in stone using broad, rounded, rhythmic lines that conform to the natural character of the stones. My goal is to produce work that is tactile, shows movement and emotion, but demands reaction. The work should speak for itself without explanation or title, but be able to be interpreted by individuals in their own way. The challenge of working on large public sculpture is most rewarding. I enjoy the mental contest of finding the idea, relating the idea to the history and environment of the site and then bring the idea to fruition. My recent monumental sculptures have had an intricate bronze detail added to them to give them a distinct flavour and contrast beautifully with the smooth lines of the stones. < Back to Sculptures

Phillip Vander Weg is an American visual artist and professor of Art at Western Michigan University. Phillip Vander Weg Work Decommissioned in 2017 Phillip Vander Weg is a professor of Art at Western Michigan University. He has held that post since 1989 and has been chair of the Department of Art for most of that time Vander Weg is also director of the WMU Sculpture Tour Program, which he founded in 1991. He received his MFA in Sculpture from The University of Michigan’s Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies in 1968. He also has a BS in Design from The University of Michigan. As an artist, Vander Weg has been exhibited regularly since 1969. Venues include Frederick Meijer Sculpture Park and Gardens in Grand Rapids, Cleveland State College, The University of Tennessee, Clemson University, and The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C. Awards and honors include a Purchase Award at The 1996 Allegro Festival Exhibition, winner of The Vanderbilt University Sculpture Competition for Heard Library Interior in 1986, and a Purchase Award in the Art Of The Eighties competition at The Tennessee State Museum (Nashville) in 1982. Since 1972, he has had in excess of 25 private commissions (completed) of major sculptures for clients in the Midwest and Southeast, and his works are in the public and corporate collections of, among many others, The Butler Museum of Art, Tennessee State Museum, New York State University at Potsdam, and Gulf & Western Industries in New York City. He is an active member of The National Association of Schools of Art and Design, The College Art Association, FATE: Foundations in Art: Theory and Education, and The International Sculpture Conference. < Back to Artists

Andrew Rothfischer's concrete sculpture with fused glass allows light to pass through it, making for beautiful changes in colour. Lissome #5 Andrew Rothfischer Materials: Polished Concrete and fused glass Description: Curvalinear concrete form with accents of fused glass Installation Date: June, 2014 Number on Map: 17 Go to Gallery About the Sculpture: Lissome is intended to show the curvilinear form that is often repeated everywhere. People see it in the grass blowing in the wind, the line of the spine in the human body and even in the highways that form the overpasses arcing overhead. Using cement to make the curved shape and Kiln formed glass or recycled float glass to accent said curves Andy has created the Lissome series. The light filters differently through the glass chosen to give a different look throughout the day as well as throughout the seasons. < Back to Sculptures

Darlene Bolahood is a Canadian visual artist who engages in many forms of visual communication through the arts. Darlene Bolahood Website: www.flemingcollege.ca/faculty/darlene-bolahood Darlene Bolahood engages in many forms of visual communication through the arts. She completed her B.Sc. at the University of Toronto, focusing on organic chemistry and philosophy, then continued to complete her MFA at the University of Waterloo. She has worked in industry as an artist and designer in textiles, retail and residential design, fashion and costume. She has exhibited her own studio work in mixed media painting and sculpture in both public and private galleries. Curriculum design and development projects for Ontario Colleges have included creative studies in fine arts, fine crafts, design, and computer animation and graphics. She is full-time faculty at the Haliburton Campus of Fleming College, delivering programs in Studio Art Certificates as well as the Visual and Creative Arts Diploma. < Back to Artists

Made possible through a generous donation by Noreen Blake, "A Conspiracy of Ravens" is a bronze sculpture by John McKinnon. A Conspiracy of Ravens John McKinnon Name of Sculpture: Conspiracy of Ravens Materials: Bronze and Steel Description: A flock of ravens created out of fabricated and welded steel. Location: Haliburton Sculpture Forest; Upper ski trail Installation Date: July, 2012 Number on Map: 22 Go to Gallery The commission for this sculpture was made possible through a generous donation from Noreen Blake. Noreen and Bob Blake spent summers in the Haliburton Highlands for over 60 years. They watched the growth of the Haliburton School of The Arts and both took a wide range of courses throughout the years. Although Noreen did not call herself an artist, she created beautiful work in a wide variety of media throughout her life. She was active for many years as a volunteer with the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery and served as the coordinator of their art rental shop. This involved travelling to meet artists and select work from their studios throughout southern Ontario. Noreen always tookan interest in the art scene in the Highlands and for a number of years served as a tour guide for the Sculpture Forest. Inspired by the donations of sculptures by individuals such as Janis Parker and Diana Ferguson, she decided it was her turn. She proposed a sculpture competition with the theme “Avian Fauna” (birds of the region). Fifty-five artists from five provinces and two states submitted 60 proposals. A jury whittled that number down to seven and then Noreen made the final selection. The jury and Noreen loved the movement of the swooping birds of John’s proposed sculpture and the unique character of each raven. The title “A Conspiracy of Ravens” inspires the question, “What are they up to?” John’s impressive body of work of expressive outdoor metal sculptures gave everyone confidence that “A Conspiracy of Ravens” would be a wonderful addition to the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. Noreen lived to see the installation of the 'Conspiracy of Ravens" in the summer of 2012. Noreen passed away in her 90th year in 2013. < Back to Sculptures