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2024 < All Sculptures 2024 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $2000.00 Oracle Rosalinde Baumgartner Oracle This sculpture was created using sculpture clay, fired cone 6 and was then smoke fired. Oracle is presented on a wooden base which has been treated to withstand the elements. Oracle stands 17 inches tall, gazing upon and holding a precious rock. A contemplative figure contemplating the future. So much coming our way, so many trying to help, will we make the right decisions? Searching for wisdom. ~Rosalinde Baumgartner~ Rosalinde Baumgartner Rosalinde is a mixed media artist who resides outside of Belwood, Ontario. You can visit her studio by making an appointment. This year she also has a sculpture, "Georgina", in the Fenelon Falls Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition and "Lightwalker", in the Burlington Waterfront Sculpture Project. We would like to welcome Rosalinde to Haliburton this year. Artist Contact Information Phone: 519-803-6435 Website : www.artevoke.com Email : rosalinde.baumgartner@gmail.com Instagram: @ rosalindebaumgartnerartist

2024 < All Sculptures 2024 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $4500.00 The Gatekeeper Elise Muller The Gatekeeper The Gatekeeper is carved from two different rocks. The Gray Jay in this sculpture is carved from Indiana Limestone and it is perched on a “fencepost" carved from Travertine (Adair Marble). It is attached to a steel base as it was part of the Elora Sculpture Project. It's a great Gatekeeper, having guarded the entrance to Stone Tree Studio ever since. Now it's time for the Gray Jay to fly off and see new places. ~Elise Muller~ Elise Muller Eilse Muller's work began in 2001 with 3 Stone Carving courses at the Haliburton School of Art + Design, where she is now a part time faculty member. She sculpts with natural rocks and minerals for both indoor and outdoor sculptures. Elise has brought the natural aspects of her sculpture practice into her jewelry and printmaking. Elise Muller’s granite sculpture "Attunement" won the 2018/19 Canadian Sculpture Competition at Kingsbrae Garden in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Elise carves stylized figures in a variety of stone such as limestone, granite, and marble. She enjoys the whole process of stone sculpting from picking the stone to chiseling, to seeing the figures emerge, to filing, and finally polishing. In 2016 Elise carved the limestone sculpture of a family that is in front of the Dorset Community Health Hub. Three of her sculptures have been on public display in Elora and Fergus as part of the Elora Sculpture Project from 2016-2018. Elise was part of the Haliburton Downtown Sculpture Exhibition in 2019 with her limestone “Dancers”, in 2023 with “Abstract #7 ” and is pleased to return again this year with "The Gatekeeper". Elise lives near Dorset and shares Stone Tree Studio with her partner, furniture maker Cirvan Hamilton. Artist Contact Information Phone: 705-783-0547 Website : www.stonetreestudio.ca Email : info@stonetreestudio.ca Instagram: @ stonefigures

Charmaine Lurch All Sculptures Wild Bees Number on Map Art Hut Artist Charmaine Lurch Material Wire, wool Installation Date August 26, 2023 Learn About the Artist These magnified bees as wire sculptures, allow the viewer to encounter a fly-by of bees, a reminder to us of our connection to the land, how plants are pollinated and food is produced. These bee sculptures invite the viewer to notice, look closer and wonder at the variety and beauty of bees. More Photos Previous Next

2023 < All Sculptures 2023 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Contact Artist for Pricing Aerial Mark Puigmarti Aerial Forged Stainless Steel & Bronze Sometimes my work is a result of visualizing processes of forging effects, and reinterpreting these effects as details in the natural world. Ariel uses several forging processes that combine in the simplistic form of a heron about to take fight. 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." Artist Contact Information Email : mark@sparkswillflyforge.ca Website : sparkswillflyforge.ca Instagram: @sparkswillflyforge Facebook: @SparksWillFlyForge

Mary Anne Barkhouse All Sculptures Gelert Number on Map 21 Artist Mary Anne Barkhouse Material Bronze with patina tarnish Installation Date August 1, 2011 Learn About the Artist Gelert is a hamlet in Snowdon Township in Haliburton County named after the town of Beddgelert in Snowdonia in the north of Wales. Beddgelert (grave of Gelert) is best known for its association with the legend of Gelert, the faithful wolfhound of Prince Llywelyn, the last prince of an independent Wales. The Legend of Gelert: In the 13th century, Llywelyn, prince of North Wales, had a faithful wolfhound named Gelert that went everywhere with him. One day he went hunting without Gelert, leaving him to guard over his infant son. On Llywelyn's return, the dog ran out to greet his master, but Llwelyn saw that Gelert was stained and smeared with blood. The prince was alarmed and ran into his hunting lodge to look for his son. He found the infant's cot empty, the bedclothes and floor covered with blood. The frantic father plunged his sword into the dog's side thinking that Gelert had killed his son. The dog's dying cry was answered by a baby's cry. Llywelyn searched the lodge and found his boy unharmed but nearby lay the body of a large wolf which Gelert had slain. The prince, filled with remorse is said never to have smiled again. He buried Gelert under a cairn of stones. That spot and the town that grew around it is called Beddgelert. – the grave of Gelert. The bronze sculpture, "Gelert " stands at the watch on a hillside in Glebe Park. The Making of Gelert: The following videos were made by Highlands Media Arts recording the creation and installation of Gelert. Click to watch the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDF8rmxkCoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLtOhw9b_c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B7OyA8i9NI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MSM-nyFZdw More Photos Previous Next

Noelle Dupret Smith < Back Originally Published On: July 31, 2018 Originally Published By: Haliburton Sculpture Forest Lament of the Mythical Sculptures Written By: Noelle Dupret Smith I am Noelle Dupret Smith, this summer’s Sculpture Forest outreach coordinator. Over the next six weeks, I will be introducing and comparing sculptures of the Downtown Sculpture Project and the Sculpture Forest. This week, I am featuring the interesting duo of Julie Campagna’s Weeping Gargoyle, located near the Bank of Montreal on Highland Street, and George Pratt’s Pan, in the Sculpture Forest. Both are mythical figures, both with interesting and sad stories. The Weeping Gargoyle instantly brought to mind the eerie and alarming gargoyle scene in Ghostbusters. However, after doing some research, I learned that gargoyles are actually forces for good; placed on public buildings to ward off evil spirits—obviously misrepresented in Ghostbusters. Reason enough to weep! In the artist’s mind, the gargoyle is weeping for the state of the earth. Pan, god of the forest in ancient Greece, has a different lament. Pan, who appears as a goat/man, was enamoured with Syrinx, a wood nymph. She wasn’t interested! To avoid Pan, Syrinx had the water nymphs disguise her as a water reed. Pan searched for Syrinx, cutting down reeds in the hopes of finding her. Unsuccessful, he fashioned an instrument out of the reeds and tried to attract her with beautiful music. No luck. He is still alone playing his pipes; pining for Syrinx. Please wander down main street of Haliburton and see the Downtown Sculpture exhibition of 6 sculptures and visit Haliburton Sculpture Forest. There are free tours of the Sculpture Forest, Tuesdays 10:00–11:30am and Wednesdays 12:10–12:50pm. < Previous Article Next Article >

John Shaw-Rimmington is a dry stone wall builder and teacher. He is the president of Dry Stone Walling Across Canada (DSWAC). John Shaw-Rimmington Website: thinking-stoneman.blogspot.ca John Shaw-Rimmington has, in the past, specialized in restoring historic stone buildings. After working for the Uxbridge museum he extended his focus to using stone in landscaping and building dry stone walls. His knowledge of designing with stone has developed after years of masonry practice in Canada and comprehensive research into traditional dry stonework in Britain where he worked with a number of professional wallers. He teaches walling in southern Ontario and has designed and built many dry stone art installations across Canada as well as built a number of dry stone bridges in Ontario and Quebec. As well as doing many demonstrations and lectures, John is the president of the Dry Stone Walling Across of Canada (www.dswac.ca ), and also writes of a daily blog called Thinking With My Hands. < Back to Artists

Mary Ellen Farrow is a Canadian sculptor, stone carver and art teacher. Mary Ellen Farrow Website: mfarrow.com Email: maryellen@mfarrow.com Mary Ellen is a resident of Georgetown and has a studio at the Williams Mill in Glen Williams. She is a familiar face in Haliburton and a student at the Haliburton School of The Arts and was previously a member of the Mississauga Sculpture Studio. Mary Ellen Farrow was born in Mount Forest Ontario and is currently residing in Georgetown Ontario. She has taken sculpture courses as Sheridan College, Haliburton School of Fine Arts and Ontario College of Art and Design. Mary Ellen has taught sculpture and stone carving at The Mississauga Sculpture Studio, Nielson Park Creative Centre in Etobicoke, CACY in Caledon, the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga, Beaux-Arts in Brampton, and at her studio in Williams mill. She is also an active member of the Sculptors' Society of Canada and the Ontario Society of Artists. < Back to Artists Contact

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

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

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

Carole Turner All Sculptures Storied Moons Number on Map 31 Artist Carole Turner Material Limestone Installation Date June 1, 2017 Learn About the Artist Carved on the Canadian Shield: Four 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. “Storied Moons” commemorates the 150 year anniversary of Canada, as well as the 150 year anniversaries of Ontario, and Dysart. A tower of three limestone moons are wrapped in incised “audio tapes,” representing the voices that tell the stories of their histories in the making. In my sculptures I often explore the notions of time, memory, history, and identity using moons as time capsules. Since childhood I have thought of moons as keepers of time, recording the events of the previous day as they set each morning and the sun rises. In another series of sculptures I use strips of metal to form video and audio tapes which I wrap around figures and forms to represent the memories of voices that we hear throughout our lives -- voices that stay with us, or come back to us again and again, and impact the formation of our beliefs and identities. For “Storied Moons” I have combined these two themes and metaphors to represent the triple histories, and the voices that narrate their stories. And if we listen carefully, we can hear 150 years of individual and collective voices echo throughout the sculpture forest. More Photos Previous Next