Artist In Residence

Eleanor Seeley

I am very excited to be given the opportunity to be the artist in residence at the Westhaven Center for the Arts. This will be an exciting year as I have given myself the goal of something new each month. Culminating in a show which will be at the end of the year. Given the current economic trends, I will not be attempting to do this series in bronze but rather a material which will be much more economically feasible without sacrificing the integrity of the work. I began the new series in January and each month will prove to be a process of discovery.

Please drop by during gallery hours and if I am there, we can chat about sculpture. My hours are random, but I am spending approximately 30 hours a week at the Westhaven Center for the Arts. You can also visit my website www.sculpturewoman.com

Artist Statement

"Using women as my subject, the female form allows a sense of spontaneity – the sleek roundness, and the fluidity of one line/form flowing into the next, allowing movement, that could just as well be abstract as representational. Form is just that, it is only the viewer's sense of familiarity that dictates subject. As I am sculpting the figure, every point is considered in relationship to the whole, so the observer can, without interruption, move around the sculpture with each view a considered tableau. That they are women is secondary to the aesthetic sensuality of form. Conversely, that they are women is essential."

Elanor Seeley