James Horne
jhorne@ruidosoarts.org
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The human figure is inspiration for most of James’ work as it is a fundamental element in the language of the visual arts. He prefers working in three dimensions. He worked for Dillard Department Stores as Design Director in the Store Planning Department designing the interiors. He has a B.A. in Fine Art from The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, and a Bachelors of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Additional studies in art were at the University of Colorado and Aix-en-Provence, France. He studied stone sculpture under Ante Marinovic in San Diego, CA.
Figurative Abstract is what James calls his style. Inspired by artists Brancusi, Noguchi and Leger, he tries to reduce the subject to its essential forms. He views his life experiences as a foundation for sculpture; from being reared on a ranch in Texas where I learned to appreciate the subtleties of nature, to working in designing store interiors, he learned how to visualize three dimensionally.
A sculpture starts out as a sketch of the idea and then to a small three dimensional model lin clay. The clay allows James to modify the design to a near final form. Working with hammer and chisel and some power tools, he roughs out the shape. He uses pneumatic chisels and then rasps, rifflers and finally sand paper to achieve a finish surface. He tries for a near perfect finish, one that an observer wants to touch.
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