John Brickels
John Brickels
11 Colbert Street
Essex Junction, Vermont 05452
t. 802-878-6874
e.
guybarn@usa.net
w. www.brickels.com
Clay Sculpture
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John Brickels John Brickels
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John Brickels has been creating architecturally-themed sculpture for over 30
years. Inspiration for his meticulously crafted buildings
comes from weathered Vermont barns, New York City rowhouses and
Industrial Rust Belt factories. Stoneware clay, with its malleable qualities, is the perfect medium for replicating barns that "bend but don't break," and urban buildings with tittering water towers and crumbling facades. All sculptures are one-of-a-kind and fired to over 2000 degrees in an electric kiln. The city of San Antonio has presented Brickels' sculptures to visiting dignitaries such as George H.W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Pope John Paul II. The Burlington Free Press writes, "Worn down by time and the elements, the buildings in these clay pieces look positively beat: slouched, swollen with experience, poised for either collapse or escape." John lives in Essex Junction with his wife Wendy James. |
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