Phoebe Ingram

Phoebe’s sculptures are primarily in alabaster but she also works in marble, calcite, African wonder stone, wood and metal. Her sculptures give a nod to realism in that, as you walk around them, they work from the angle you’re looking at and the piece flows from one part to another and is balanced as a whole. Her themes include ‘mother and child’, ‘the female form’, ‘birds’, and ‘bears’. Phoebe started carving in stone when she came to the States 13 years ago. She took courses in sculpture at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA and later in the DeCordova museum continuing education program and at the Museum of Fine Arts School and the Mass School of Art, both in Boston.Mother and Child. I have worked on the Mother and Child theme for a few years and it is one that has been explored by a million artists over the centuries but trying to capture the essence of what it means to me in a piece of stone will probably be an endless preoccupation. I am trying to convey the total absorption of mother and child with each other and so create an inward facing tension in the piece. After the Bath and the Female Form. This series is a study of the female form and, in particular, how evocative the curve of the back is to conveying introspection and meditation in the figure. The series of paintings by Degas entitled ‘After the Bath’ have provided a strong influence. Birds and Bears. The elegant shape of the heron is still soaring skyward despite being firmly grounded. In contrast, I love the solid, rounded feel of bears and have been influenced by Inuit carvings.

Phoebe Ingram

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