Sculptures

by Thomas Berger

 

Photo by my friend Dr. Elizabeth Schneider

 

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. What intrigues me is the magic found in every object, and the mystery of the origin of everything. 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. This is what for me, my sculpting is all about. (more about my motivation in my Artists Statement)

 

Sculptures bring definition, contrast and weight into a garden - weight literally, and also understood as meaning, or importance. Stone is hard, permanent and unyielding and finds it greatest contrast in feathery leaves and blades of grasses trembling in the moving air. Stone is complemented by water. Not rigid but flowing and moving, not hard but ever yielding, not permanent but ever changing. Water is rushing by over stones or holding still at their base. Stone, water and plants are a magic combination - add the sun and they make a fine and complete world.

The following sculptures are examples, most of them are no longer available for sale.

 

Show at Seacoast Science Center July-August 2008: "Life in the Ocean"

Show at Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, March 2008: "Organic Remnants"
 Some of my most recent work: sea creatures and other organic forms carved out of rock boulders.

Show at Kittery Art Association 2006: Sacred Places

Sea Creatures, reliefs

Castles and Lanterns
Fish

 Zombies
Fish reliefs        

Human figure and Humanoids
Fish Benches

Basins

Reptiles and Frogs

Fountains

Mammals

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Sundials

Owls

Submarine
 Classic Dolphins

Inscriptions
       
 

 

Sculpting Basics
about myself

watercolor paintings and other art work

    

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