My journey as an Artist has led me through many doors. As a teenager I was not interested in school and found instead it was the love of art that gave me a ground and a sense of my purpose. It is funny but almost reluctantly I picked up a welding torch and began creating sculptures. This was a catalyst for an awakening. The experience of creating sculpture washed over me, flooding my mind with ideas, thoughts and a sense of endless possibilities. At that time, about the age of seventeen I committed to the path of an Artist.

Compelled by an immediate attraction to create life-sized and larger works I launched in to a series of sculptures over the next three years, which would determine much of my direction. Pivotal within these projects is “The Dancer” that was initiated at the age of twenty. He is a monumental scale male figure created from bronze and steel. I set out to create a work which spoke to the heart of the human drama and in the five-year creation process of “The Dancer” I explored a multitude of techniques, philosophies and ideas that would bring cold metal alive with this drama. At the end of this journey I had established much of my approach and technique.

I have found that my creative process moves independently with its own force and purpose. Central to my experience has been my interactive relationship with the permanent materials as I work directly in bronze, stainless steel and stone. My technique has evolved as an organic approach, which allows for my intuitive instincts to guide the unfolding of the creative process.

Primarily working with the human figure from my beginnings, I felt figurative work was the vehicle for my most expressive form of sculpture. An unforeseen traumatic event created a shift that led to a new perception outside the constraints of the human form. The emergence of a new series of work based on the primal concept of fluid/liquid elements manifested. Liquid is a primary elemental form which drives every aspect of the physical world we inhabit and this series strives to capture a sense of the energy and movement of the fluid form.

Ronld L. Jermyn

Sculptor