I employ the direct carving method using primarily the
stone sculptor’s tools of hammer and chisel. Stone carving
is my visual language with which I communicate my
thoughts and feelings of the world about me.
My focus is on the abstraction of organic form both from
human sources and forms in nature. A reclining figure,
cloud formations, shadows of the forest, a mother with
child, shapes of the land, ……..through all of this I abstract
that which is critical to tell it’s story….. told through the
beauty of stone …. itself born of nature. Most of the time I
do not pre–sketch or use a model. I let my feelings and the
natural forms in each stone lead me on the journey to a
finished work of art. It is my JOY to travel this journey. It is
my hope to communicate this JOY to you my audience.
Enjoy !
The carving of stone is a very slow craft. One needs to sustain
the basic concept of a work over many weeks to it’s
completion…….and yet, during that journey, as each fresh mark
of the chisel shows itself…..a new  and exciting change in that
journey may come to be…. to better tell the story of the work.
Marty Silverman   -   Jackson NJ
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