Eric Saint Georges
“Besides worrying about my family, friends and community in general, and being concerned by the economic disaster it is going to be for so many people, I appreciate the quiet time I can spend working in my studio catching up on a lot of unfinished work and creating new ones. I miss the social interaction, but this forced confinement is an opportunity for me to rethink my priorities and re-focus.”
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I watch the model, I feel the tension of her movement in my own body. With my knife I make bold cuts in the block of clay, trying to capture the essence of the pose. I have to work fast, keeping the energy flowing, and when I start to see some life emerging from the clay, I feel alive too... I draw a few lines, quickly, sometimes with a couple of watercolor strokes. I do not think, just keep my focus on the model, enjoy the freedom of my hand moving, and the contact of the charcoal on the paper. Then, once in a while, the drawing is alive and I can feel the movement and the mood of the model, and I see that I have nothing to add to it and that if do, it is going to ruin it... My current focus is on figurative sculpture and drawing. I draw almost exclusively from life, my preference being very short poses. I do not try to tell a story, as much as to capture the moment, the movement, the mood. I create most of my sculptures in clay, often from life. I then cast them in bronze, which is time consuming but very rewarding.