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2018 < All Sculptures 2018 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $800.00 Lissome 5 Andrew Rothfischer Artist Contact Information 705-761-3828 andrewr@nexicom.net

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

2023 < All Sculptures 2023 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Contact Artist for Pricing Grow Together Eric Tardiff Grow Together Aluminium When we talk about cohabitation, I immediately think of social cohabitation, of living together in peace and respect for each other. We hope and desire the inclusion of different cultures and social classes in our society. That being said, the project that I propose to you here is intended to be unifying by its purpose and intriguing by its form. The sculpture suggests the inclusion of people around us for a better cohabitation starting with the Me and ending with Them It is an interactive sculpture where the visitor is invited to pose their figure in the last facial space, the ME. I chose to put the two official languages for a specific purpose of integrating the two host cultures. In addition, seen in profile, the sculpture also refers to a megaphone, symbolizing the desire to be heard. I think a lot of photos will be taken by visitors because of the interactive face concept. Éric Tardif Éric Tardif is from Kamouraska, a region in the Bas Saint-Laurent municipality in Quebec. Tardif originally studied Natural Sciences but turned to studying the arts and sculpture to explore his passion and artistic talent. In his work Tardif explores dimension, movement, and space. He works with several different materials and mediums in his work from wood, metal, and also has variety of mixed media 2D work as well. Tardif pushes the art world in both his concepts as well as his avant-garde method of steam-folding wood for his wood sculptures. This technique allows for his wooden sculptures to be full of movement and curved forms. He has received grants from CALQ (Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec) and SODEC (Société de développement des entreprises culturelles) for several years. In recent years, Éric has expanded his artwork into bronze sculpture and has returned to his multimedia work. For the past 5 years, Eric has been working and designing Public Art and expressive outdoor sculptures in aluminum. He has more than 100 exhibitions to his name around the world and his work can be found in 10 galleries across North America. Artist Contact Information Website : erictardif.com Email : tardif065@gmail.com Phone: 613-286-5488 Facebook: EricTardifartiste

Mary Ellen Farrow All Sculptures Voyage Number on Map 30 Artist Mary Ellen Farrow Material Limestone Installation Date June 1, 2017 Learn About the Artist Carved on the Canadian ShieldFour artists from three countries visited Haliburton for a three week sculpture symposium in 2017 in celebration of Dysart 150, Ontario 150, and Canada 150. Beginning with a block of limestone, each artist was tasked with creating a piece that reflected the theme of carving on the Canadian Shield. When asked to participate in the 150 Sculpture Symposium, “Carved on the Canadian Shield”, I knew that I wanted to sculpt a canoe. The canoe is so much a part our heritage, created by the Indigenous People, used by the early settlers as transportation, exploration, trade, and commerce. Today the canoe is much a part of the local community, for sport and recreation, and is an integral part of the tourism trade.It is a bit of an enigma, seeing a canoe in the forest but that is part of the fun. I wanted it to be interactive, for children to be able to climb over it and play games in it, to simply enjoy. More Photos Previous Next

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

Gord Peteran All Sculptures Passage Number on Map 38 Artist Gord Peteran Material Red Cedar Installation Date June 16, 2021 Learn About the Artist My artwork is fuelled by the historical decorative arts.Unlike most artists I’m not looking for “new”, but rather the very, very old.I’m interested in testing the boundaries of what we know and trust. Disrupting the iconography of culture slightly, either by altering their context or proximity, can destabilize assumptions and suggest ideas that seem both correct and wrong in the same moment. Doorways are thresholds of our buildings, and also represent the threshold of our anxieties.Two doorway openings placed apart to imply a room, stand as both sentinels and facilitators of flow and passage.A dining table, . . . with oars, placed between these frames suggests both the safe space of home and references to this rural location.A table implies gathering, and in many ways represents the core of the family.Are there directional implications to a dining table?Is it in any way mobile?Who propels the ideas discussed at dinner?Can they stagnate or change course? The emblems and events of summer at a lake cannot be underestimated.They become imbedded in our psyche for life.Perhaps because they are filled with moments of joy, of discovery, learning, curiosity and camaraderie, . . . (the conditions necessary for creativity). The new conditions our world now faces provide potential opportunities. This artwork’s references are vast, from global warming and migratory populations, to the intimate summer ponderings of a child.The swinging doors once hanging from the doorframes have long since disappeared with only vague remnants of each left visible.Visitors can freely pass into, through, and out of this scene, setting in motion their own transformative art moment. More Photos Previous Next

2023 < All Sculptures 2023 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Contact Artist for Pricing Night Szonja Vucsetics Night Plane & Cedar Logs “Night” consists of two wooden sculptures side-by-side, depicting a reclining human figure wrapped in a blanket, sleeping beside a small campfire. The figure is carved out of a single plane tree log, and the fire from a cedar stump. Stained black, with pieces of shell and metal flake inlay, the blanket depicts a night sky rendering an image of the universe. This installation explores the connection between micro- and macrocosm (mortal human life within vast infinity), and nature as our beginning, ending, nurturer and destroyer. Szonja Vucsetics Szonja Vucsetics is a Hungarian - Canadian artist based in Toronto, working primarily in oil paint and mixed media on paper. She graduated in drawing and painting from OCAD University in 2007 and has lived and worked in Hungary, Jamaica and Canada. Fascinated from early childhood by the expressive voice of colour in nature and visual imagery, Vucsetics looked to expressionism and storybook illustrations to relate her work through her early years as an artist. Using art as a therapy through life experiences, traumas and journeys, her work continuously developed as a visual journal telling the story of lived and subconscious experiences. Her illustrative works speak the visual language of stories and dreams, playfully blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination, impression and expression, representation and abstraction. Through material explorations with brushwork and colour, her work often focuses on our relationship to land as the place that holds our stories. Recently, Vucsetics has been working on narrative depictions of nature and landscape as an allegory for the human conditions of death, rebirth, joy and suffering. Artist Contact Information Email : szonjatics@gmail.com Website : szonjasstudio.ca Phone Number: 647-909-5897 Instagram: @ szonjasstudio Facebook: Szonja's Studio

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 < All Artists Jake Mol ABOUT SCULPTOR Artist Bio 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 Artist Website Installed Sculptures Homesteaders Previous Sculpture Next Sculpture

George Hart All Sculptures Quadratic Whisper Number on Map 44 Artist George Hart Material Rebar Installation Date October 4, 2025 Learn About the Artist On October 3, 2025, George Hart led a hands-on workshop with students from Haliburton Highlands Secondary School and Fleming College - Haliburton School of Art + Design about the intersection of mathematics and sculpture. Students learned about the properties and applications of hyperboloids in our society. Students created their own model of an hyperboloid, which they were able to take home with them. In the afternoon, students worked with George to assemble a large ellipical hyperboloid using rebar rods. Students measured the rods, cut and assembled the rods on to a large wooden form and locked the parts together, using ties. Blacksmith artist, Mark Puigmarti, welded the junctions together. This unique piece offers visitors an opportunity to walk throught the centre of this sculpture. You have to look carefully for this sculpture, as it is nicely nestled in amongst the trees, waiting to be discovered! George Hart is a sculptor who uses mathematical ideas and computer technology in the design and fabrication of his artwork. He holds a PhD from MIT and is now retired from a career in the faculty of Columbia University and Stony Brook University. Hart co-founded the Museum of Mathematics in NYC and currently works from home in the Bruce Peninsula area in Ontario. His sculptures are exhibited around the world and can be seen at www.georgehart.com Funded by: More Photos Previous Next

Scott McKay All Sculptures Mother Earth Number on Map 33 Artist Scott McKay Material Corten Steel Installation Date October 1, 2018 Learn About the Artist Mother Earth is my vision of the classical mother figure married to the symbol of life in the tree form. She is about 7 feet tall without the pedestal. -- total height [at] about 102”. Mother Earth was created from 3/16” Corten steel which was developed for longevity in an outdoor environment. This piece was created in March 2018. Prior to finding her permanent home in the Sculpture Forest, Mother Earth could be found at the corner of York and Highland in the village of Haliburton as part of the 2018 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition. More Photos Previous Next

Created by students of the Integrated Arts Program at Innisdale Secondary School in Barrie, Ontario All Sculptures I see a wish Number on Map 37 Artist Created by students of the Integrated Arts Program at Innisdale Secondary School in Barrie, Ontario Material Powder Coated Steel Installation Date November 1, 2020 Learn About the Artist In 2015, the students in the Innisdale Integrated Arts Program produced a multi-media arts presentation (poetry, music, dance, paintings and sculpture) for the new Cancer Treatment Centre at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie. One piece was a sculpture of a dandelion gone to seed with one of the parachutes (wishes) about to take flight. A teacher in Collingwood, Deb Shackell, who was familiar with Haliburton Sculpture Forest was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and went to RVH for treatments and saw the sculpture. The dandelion and the saying “Some see a weed; I see a wish” has long been her personal coda – and seeing this sculpture gave her great hope and inspiration. She got in contact with the Sculpture Forest curator and said that she would like to raise the money to get a similar sculpture for the Sculpture Forest. The program coordinators at Innisdale said that they would be interested in having the class of 2019-2020 create a new sculpture for the Sculpture Forest (using the ideas and inspirations of the current students). Deb and the Sculpture Forest curator met with the students a couple of times; there was lots of back and forth on the design. Meanwhile, after a year of treatment, Deb was cancer free and she mounted a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe as well as produced and sold art cards with inspirational photography. The Sculpture was going to be installed in the spring of 2020 but COVID-19 got in the way. All the pieces of the sculpture had been created – it just needed to be brought to Haliburton and installed. The four teachers from Innisdale arranged to bring the pieces of the sculpture to Haliburton in November 2020 where it was assembled and installed. More Photos Previous Next

Brett Davis All Sculptures Guardians of the Forest Number on Map 04 Artist Brett Davis Material Bronze Installation Date June 1, 2004 Learn About the Artist In the past, man has played a crucial role in the depletion of our forests and has endangered many animals, bird species and forest vegetation by clear cutting, pollution, and neglect. Over the years, numerous conservation programs have been designed and implemented to protect the animals, birds, and forest vegetation, through education, laws, and public awareness. We must play an active and optimistic role to help replenish and stabilize our environment. The “Guardians” are a combination of man and nature. Together they form an alliance that reminds us to harmonize with nature to help keep our eco system balanced and our environment clean and free from any intervention that may harm or destroy the future of our forests. More Photos Previous Next