With my sculptures, I express my admiration for nature in all its forms: the universe, our planet, life in all its variations, our human existence. There is magic found in every living thing, and the creation of nature is a mystery. We will probably never know to the last point how our existence started, and how and why out of a Big Bang unfolded such an incomprehensible richness of space, time, forms, and above all: life! It is a question to which we can find an answer only in spirituality.
     
News

Nov. 4th, 2011:    The sculpture 'Cidaris' was awarded the 2nd prize at the '11th Annual Joan Dunfey Memorial Exhibition' (Nov. 2 to Nov. 25 at the Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, NH). Thomas also has 'Echinocyamus' in this show, another sculpture of an Echinoderm.

Nov. 22nd, 2011:   Thomas installed his sculpture 'Atlantic Sparkler' at the newly designed Hampton Beach. This work was commissioned by the State of New Hampshire. It is sculpted from a granite boulder and weighs approximately 1500 lbs. The round scales are polished and sparkle in the sun - hence the species name (although this is the only specimen ever observed)

Link to images at the State Park website: http://www.nhstateparks.org/whats-happening/improving-state-parks/hampton-beach-redevelopment.aspx

working on 'Cidaris'

'Atlantic Sparkler'
     
     
Nature is a wonder - perhaps the only wonder that ever occurred - and as an artist, I see myself as a mediator for the concerns of this wonder. My thriving is not only to find the beauty in the obviously pleasing, but above all to expose beauty and dignity where it is less apparent to us.
     
     
To me, all occurrances of nature - plants, animals, microorganisms, stone, earth, landscape, space, and the human soul - are relics of a paradise that is threatened to get lost. However we may not let drop these remnants apathetically. In an apparently never ending effort, we have to attempt to find new balances which may preserve nature and her magic on one hand, and which may not hinder our human striving and ambition on the other hand.
     
     
I often add scars and cracks to my works - traces of the passing of time that express the amazing resilience and longevity of nature as compared to our human existence.
     
     

My Studio and Sculpture Garden are located in Kittery/Maine, just 2 miles south of the Kittery Outlets

Tel: (207) 439-7700   Map

 

 

Sculptures availability list and prices

Thomas Berger

Green Art, Inc

30 Route-1-Bypass

Kittery, Maine 03904

Tel: (207) 439-7700

thomas@bergerstoneart.com

 
 
 
     
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Über meine Kunst:

 

Meine Bildhauer-Kunst wurzelt in meiner tiefen, mir angeborenen Verehrung der Natur.

 

Alle Erscheinungen der Natur - Pflanzen, Tiere, Mikroorganismen, Gestein, Erde, Landschaft, das Weltall und die menschliche Seele - sind für mich Relikte eines im Verlorengehen begriffenen Paradieses. Jedoch dürfen wir nicht teilnahmslos die Überreste fallen lassen, sondern müssen versuchen - in wohl niemals endender Anstrengung - neue Gleichgewichte zu finden welche einerseits die Natur und Ihren Zauber bewahren und andererseits unser menschliches Streben und Aufsteigen nicht behindern.

 

Als Künstler fuehle ich mich als Botschafter der Anliegen der Natur - welche ein (und vielleicht das einzige) Wunder sind. Dabei geht es nicht darum, das Schöne allein im offensichtlich Gefallenden aufzuzeichnen, sondern vor allem auch Schönheit und Würde im weniger Offensichtlichen zu finden.

 

Ein besonderer Aspekt meiner Arbeit steht in Bezug zum Begriff "Zeit". Ich beanspruche nicht, daß meine Werke "zeitlos" seien, aber gewöhnlich strebe ich danach, Spuren der Zeit in meinen Arbeiten sichtbar werden zu lassen. Diesen Aspekt meiner Arbeit kann ich zwar beobachten, habe ihn aber nie systematisch hinterfragt. Ich vermute, daß ich damit die Langlebigkeit der Natur im Vergleich zu unserer menschlichen Existenz zum Ausdruck bringen will.