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  • Sun Sisters

    2018 < All Sculptures 2018 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $9,850.00 Sun Sisters Tim Dolman Artist Contact Information 519-369-6479

  • Depth

    2021 < All Sculptures 2021 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Part of Sculpture Forest Collection Depth Don Frost Depth I had a lot of fun making this piece during the COVID-19 lockdowns. It was a real escape from the world and just evolved into this primitive, organic shape. I live beside a bike trail and this piece brought in many people off the path to see what I was working on. The mount is also unusual for me, going up on a diagonal which gives the piece some extra movement. The finish is graphite, top coated in a prismatic gold to magenta paint. The piece is made from fiberglass, and composites and is designed to withstand weather extremely well. Don Frost “The act of being a sculptor and continually experiencing the creative challenges in this multidimensional world causes a thought process that spills over into all facets of life causing the world of the artist to become a work of art” Peterborough born Don Frost had his future path laid out for him by winning first prize in a city wide art exposition at age six in grade one. The following year at age seven, Don had a group showing at thePeterborough Public Library. Public school had its usual trials and tribulations and it was not until grade 10 that Don discovered that he was colour blind to all but the primary colours. At this point Don’s life took a right turn and sculpture was all that he focused on. Don teamed up with a friend in grade 11 who became his art agent and they enjoyed considerable success in the Peterborough area. Afterhigh school Don took some time off to do his art and apprentice as a mechanic for a year. In 1973-74 he attended Sheridan Art College followed by a decision to become a professional sculptor having just received a major commission for a large 15' tall sculpture for a new mall being built in Peterborough, Ontario. This was followed by the creation of the largest sculpture in Canada in 1983 by winning a competition for an indoor work for the Michael Starr Building in Oshawa, Ontario. Always seeking new outlets for art Don acquired an art agent in Ottawa which led to an introduction to a patron who kept Don busy creating more than 40 sculptures in a period of twenty years. Don’s work internationally was recently a commission for four large works for a garden in Club Medjulis in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Previously to this in an expansive design project by the late King Hussein for a 1.6 km wall of huge relief panels commemorating the history of Jordan, Don’s work on six of these panels was accepted by King Abdullah. Experiencing greater notoriety for the global uniqueness of his art, Don was presented with awards from Peterborough County and commemorated in the Walk of Fame. Presently Don has art representatives across the United States and Canada. Artist Contact Information donfrostsculptor.com don.frost@sympatico.ca 705-652-7200

  • Annie

    2024 < All Sculptures 2024 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $5900.00 Annie Carolanne MacLean Annie This bronze sculpture stands 14 inches tall. It represents a tranquil and thoughtful young woman. With her hair tied back, Annie depicts the ease of beautiful youth. When Caroleanne was creating Annie, she explained that she works with a sculpture until she feels the rhythm of the shape. She continues sculpting until she is totally satisfied with something that is beautiful. Carolanne MacLean I feel I am working with energy, whether painting or sculpting. I am interested in the healing value of colour and the surprising beauty of the accidental mark, and intrigued by the very existence of our response to beauty. I am motivated to soothe the world through thoughtful introspection. I long to create a world where I can feel at peace and a little more in control. ~Caroleanne MacLean~ Carolanne MacLean was born in Toronto in 1949. She is a graduate with honours of the Ontario College of Art in Fine Art and has a B.A. from the University of Toronto. Her large encaustic abstract works are a study in light, colour and texture, sometimes involving the figure, often nonrepresentational. Her City Souls paintings capture moments, passing expressions on the faces around us. She pursues the beauty of the figure through a regular sculpture practice. Artist Contact Information Website : carolannemaclean.com Instagram: @ carolannemaclean Email : cmtoronto@pm.me Phone: 647-296-7259

  • Carapace Pillar

    2022 < All Sculptures 2022 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Contact Artist for Pricing Carapace Pillar Michelle Cieloszczyk Carapace Pillar Carapace Pillar consists of blue silicone protective vests attached to a metal structure. The piece compares the use of shields and body armour in law enforcement with the protective outer shells of animals or insects, envisioning a biological skin of policing. The sculptures create a soft and malleable shell out of an aggregate of protective equipment. The reversal of the vest's function highlights the discrepancies between hard and soft social functions. Michelle Cieloszczyk Michelle Cieloszczyk is a visual artist in Tkaronto / Toronto Ontario. Michelle's practice encompasses object-based works, installations, public interventions, and public art. Her recent body of work started in 2017, examines the politics of policing considering the roles and structures of authority through castings of uniforms. Michelle studied at OCAD University (BFA in Sculpture/Installation) and the Glasgow School of Art. Artist Contact Information info@michellecieloszczyk.com szonjasstudios.ca

  • This Side Up #9, “Shall We Dance”

    2018 < All Sculptures 2018 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $4,000.00 This Side Up #9, “Shall We Dance” Michael Truelove Artist Contact Information mike@trueloveprototypes.com www.michealtruelove.com

  • Oil Tanker Obelisk

    2022 < All Sculptures 2022 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Sold Oil Tanker Obelisk Brendan Duggan Oil Tanker Obelisk Oil Tanker Obelisk is part of my continuing series on Canadian transportation offering viewers the chance/choice to recognize or worship a public manifestation of their supply chain. Brendan Duggan Brendan Duggan was born in Toronto in 1971, settling in Gravenhurst in 2004 with a Fine Arts Diploma from the Toronto School of Art. His work shifts between design, craft and art. Combining elements from a broad scope of metalsmithing methodology that includes commercial fabrication and machinist skills to traditional blacksmithing techniques. His sculptures range from found art, constructivist assemblages, to free-form linear monoliths. Brendan has earned many awards for his sculptures and custom metal work, including “Ontario Craft Council Design” from March 2011 and “Best in Show” from March 2014. Brendan’s business Get Bent Metal Fabrication specializes in providing high-quality, detailed custom metal fabrication in the Gravenhurst – Muskoka region and ships worldwide. Get Bent Metal offers steel, stainless steel welding, aluminum welding, copper work, as well as forging and CNC plasma cutting for a variety of industries. Artist Contact Information getbentinfo@gmail.com

  • Double Take

    2022 < All Sculptures 2022 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Part of Sculpture Forest Collection Double Take Carolanne MacLean Double Take This piece is a rendition of a female figure, 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. Double Take is created with green Winterstone. Winterstone is a dry powder mix which, when mixed with water, produces a clay-like consistency. Initially, it can be modelled 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. Carolanne MacLean I feel I am working with energy, whether painting or sculpting. I am interested in the healing value of colour and the surprising beauty of the accidental mark, and intrigued by the very existence of our response to beauty. Carolanne MacLean was born in Toronto in 1949. She is a graduate with honours of the Ontario College of Art in Fine Art and has a B.A. from the University of Toronto. Her large encaustic abstract works are a study in light, colour and texture, sometimes involving the figure, often nonrepresentational. Her City Souls paintings capture moments, passing expressions on the faces around us. She pursues the beauty of the figure through a regular sculpture practice. Artist Contact Information cmtoronto@pm.me carolannemaclean.com

  • Take Flight

    2021 < All Sculptures 2021 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $1,800.00 Take Flight Jennifer Anne Kelly Take Flight There is a moment of euphoria when watching birds levitate from the ground. These magic sights offer spontaneous joy. "Take Flight" is a statement of optimism and a reminder of the joys that surround us. The ability of birds to fly in any pattern they choose is a visual example of freedom. "Take Flight" reminds us of the importance for all beings to experience the pleasure of freedom. Don't hesitate to act, to risk, to explore. We can experience happiness in our own actions and in the appreciation of all that surrounds us. The design of the stainless steel and glass birds originated in a paper cut out similar to how we created paper snowflakes as children. The basic paper cut out was transformed into steel using CNC technology. Glass embellishments are hand cut and layered with crushed glass all made by hand in the studio. The glass is fired in a large kiln and annealed for strength. The process is a juxtaposition of age old and modern processes. May you smile upon viewing and be inspired to take flight in your own way. Jennifer Anne Kelly "I am inspired by what I do not yet understand. This is true of our natural world as I believe we are at the very beginning of understanding the abilities and experiences of other living things. It is also true of creating in glass. I strive to create what I have never seen created before. This leads to a lot of experimentation, trial, and error. My greatest challenge is accomplishing the effect I am looking for with each small element. When the final piece emerges and my heart jumps, I know I have succeeded." Jennifer Anne Kelly was born in Ottawa, Canada and spent a few early schooling years in London, England. Jennifer chose to stay in Ottawa when she returned and completed her formal education at Carleton University. At age twenty two she took a stained glass course in Ottawa and was completely entranced by this magic substance that was so many things at one time. She spent the following years experimenting with original designs in stained glass and then around 2010 she began experimenting with kiln worked glass. She has studied at many schools including Corning Studio, Pittsburgh Glass School, Urban Glass in New York, and Bullseye Glass Studio in Portland OR. In 2013 she was hired to create glass for Cirque du Soleil and that’s when she began to pursue glass creativity as a full time occupation. Kelly has since taught her glass techniques in Canada and the UK. "What energizes me? Fleeting moments in my daily activities or on one of my excursions in the forest and on water make my heart jump. It can be the view in front of me or an image in my mind. It is the spark that ignites my vision for a new glass artwork." Taking inspiration from dreams and time spent in nature and recreating the experience from memory, Kelly creates dream-like pieces from glass. Most pieces begin with glass powder. The fine powdered glass changes under heat in the kiln. The layering and shading of various powders is repeated several times with multiple trips into the kiln. Fine tools are used to etch into the powder and to shape the individual forms. In some cases, a torch is used to shape rods of glass into the anticipated forms. After torching, etching, and shaping, the glass goes back into the kiln for annealing. Her process of creating the various elements that go into a piece takes weeks and often months. "I create in glass as one would write a poem. It is at once deeply personal and yearning to be shared. When someone views my creation and has a deep connection I am overjoyed." The common glass thread through her work is the contemplation on the human experience in our natural world. Humans have always had a deeply emotional relationship with the world around us. We interpret metaphors in these scenes. We struggle at times to relate and at other times feel a profound interconnectedness with the universe. Artist Contact Information jenniferannekelly.com www.glasskits.ca @jenniferakelly 613-859-0100

  • Athena

    2021 < All Sculptures 2021 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Contact Artist for Pricing Athena Brett Davis Athena Athena was known in ancient Greece as the Goddess of Wisdom and War. She was beautiful, courageous, inspirational and known for being the protector of the city. Using all her accolades, I created Athena as a guardian of nature, one that can over see all aspects of her surrounding environmental conditions. Although she is in a fragmented state, this bronze sculpture illustrates the hardships of changes to the natural world that have occurred over time through pollution, global warming and the depletion of forests and marsh lands. Her textural appearance and color of patina, harmonize with the landscaping elements. Athena is also a symbol of strength, surviving the millennium of change, forever watching over and protecting nature Brett Davis Brett Davis was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1957. He graduated with honors from Toronto’s Central Technical School Special Fine Art Program in 1981 where he majored in sculpture, and won The K.A.Griffith Award and The Peter Haworth Award for Meritorious Achievement, and is a member of The Sculptors Society of Canada. He works in all facets of ferrous and non-ferrous metals from welding, fabrication, chasing and fountain design. Brett has also studied ancient and historical patinas for more than 25 years, while practicing in the art of chemical patination, which has gained him a notable reputation as a Patina Specialist in Metal Conservation. With over 25 years of experience, he specializes in the design, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of custom and commissioned bronze works designed specifically for interior and exterior environments. He has worked with many prominent landscaping and architectural firms integrating bronze sculptures and fountains into their unique designs and has won many public art competitions in Ontario, Canada. Brett’s travels abroad have also earned him an international reputation as a bronze artist, participating in many invitational international exhibitions and symposiums, and has numerous private and public works in Asia, United Kingdom, USA and Canada. The Haliburton Sculpture Forest has hosted two of Davis's pieces thus far: "Guardians of the Forest" in our permanent collection and "Athena" in the 2021 downtown exhibit. Artist Contact Information davis@ageofbronze.ca www.ageofbronze.ca

  • Layers

    2018 < All Sculptures 2018 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $2,500.00 Layers Darrell Markewitz Artist Contact Information 519-923-9219 www.warehamforge.ca

  • Botanical Canoe

    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.

  • Bronze Sky Pods

    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.

Land Acknowledgment

We would like to acknowledge that we are located on ancestral lands, the traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabe covered by the Williams Treaties. This area, known to the Anishinaabe as “Gidaaki”, has been inhabited for thousands of years – as territories for hunting, fishing, gathering and growing food.


For thousands of years Indigenous people have been the stewards of this place. The intent and spirit of the treaties that form the legal basis of Canada bind us to share the land “for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow”.

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