Gordon Reidt
Sculptor
Site # 5 |
558 Alma St. Port Perry |
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Out of my love and respect for nature and the desire to freely express myself, I became a sculpture artist about 20 years ago expressing my passion for nature through stone. The freedom of expression in my sculpture is a way to portray nature in poses and colours people normally do not tend to see. I say my work is stylized.
My work is continually evolving in some pieces towards more abstract art. The work of Michelangelo and the late E.B.Cox, a local sculptor, inspire me. I continue to push to growth as an artist using different and more sometimes difficult stones. Using a variety of stone fulfills my inner desire to help show the public the beauty around us.
When starting a sculpture, I tend to maximize subjects within each stone respecting all stones as a limited resource. Many quarries I travel to have been mined out leaving only remnants of their original beauty.
Gordon began carving stone in 2005 with local sculptor Fred Hummel. After studying in a group setting for about 18 months, Gordon began to branch out on his own. Over the following few years, Gordon took Advanced Sculpture Classes at the Haliburton School for the Arts, attended Workshops with Zimbabwe Shona artists through the Zimart Program, and In 2014, attended a Jade carving workshop in British Columbia with a renowned jade sculptor Deborah Wilson.
Gordon shows his work through local Studio Tours including the Uxbridge Studio Tour, Scugog Studio Tour, Stouffville Studio Tour and Victoria County Studio Tour. Other venues have included the Purple Turtle Arts Festival and private art shows in Kingston, Lindsay and Bobcageon. For the past 20 years, Gordon’s artistic education has continued through interaction with other sculptors and has provided weekly mentoring sessions for people interested in the art of sculpture carving. Gordon’s work can be found across Canada, United States, Israel, England and Australia.
Gordon’s work can be viewed and purchased year-round at Scugog Arts Space.
