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Show e 21 wa s-- , tux pl is1? 9 it r3 Fr rj i ii mi r rr if i r mj ma it i wi The Daily Herald III became the head of the art department. After teaching there for 18 months, the Transfields decided to locate in Utah where his wife's family lives. Transfield likes to have two or three pieces going at the same time. Currently he is working on several different series. One is a working woman series. He has one sculpture of a woman raking By KAREN HOAG Special to The Daily Herald When he was a little kid in New . Zealand, sculptor LeRoy Trans-fiel- d liked to draw pictures. Now Jiving in Provo, he shares memories: of that time which eventually ed him to sculpting.-"What used to frustrate me is I couldn't take it (the drawing) off the page and touch it and hold it. I wanted it to have a the presence," sculptor says. Recently, two of bis sculptures won pp honors out of jnore than 200 , -- u .... . . Si : .aMo if . woman another acm n ill hanging clotnes on the line and still washing her hair. He also has a religious series of which "Christ Heal- ing the Blind Man" is a part; another is Christ washing the feet of the apostles. ft A piece he hopes ''Madonna and Child" and "Christ Healing of the Blind Man." fr His work is handled by Repartee Galleries. They have four galleries: Frameworks in University Mall, Orem; Repartee at both the CMI Center and Foothill Mall in. Salt Lake City and Repartee on Old Main Street in Park City. The to complete in time for the Olympics is . wt titled "Human Race;" he describes it as three muscular figures "exploding forward." Another idea he has is sculpting the seven periods of the Creation. . How will he do them? "With great difficulty!" he laughs, and adds .'The worst thing about being a sculptor is that I want to hurry up to finish one because I have an idea for' anoth- two vvinning works are available at Frameworks. --Transfield has a bachelor's in Tine arts from Brigham Young ma u U another leaves, X. entries in a "Works of-th- e Spirit" art Contest in Pasade-t?- a Calif. The winning sculptures by are Transfield . Sunday, January 21, 1996 the I i ' er." Unive- 1 What exactly is the process from beginning to end? "The longest time and most important part in a sculpture should be planning, design and Daily Herald PhotosJason Olson research," Transfield says. He Child" in a won Transfield's of "Christ a year to Transfield 'Christ "Works honors took it to a LeRoy research Healing (at left) top Healing" sculpture paper: compares "You don't just write it first.. It the Blind Man" (above) and "Madonna and the Spirit" art contest in Pasadena, Calif. plete, "Madonna" took six months. .; doesn't take long to write, but the shell. The shell is then put in a kiln is left with a bronze piece. Transfield did terra cotta sculpt magic number," Transfield says. 'tures instead of bronze when " He ' . exclufewer the research takes two years." more "The sandto melt the wax out and turn the and made, Welding, grinding was a "poor student." . each sive Transfield uses the "lost wax ceramic into a bisque. is." takes to the piece where blasting piece "When you sculpt in terra cotta,' ' The limited edition for the he wants it. process. His creative process starts "Where the wax was, it is a water-bas- e clay. It dries, then, Heal-iwith a thumbnail sketch in clay (3 " for is "Madonna" " Transfield.-"That- 's "Christ 50; FirailyrTfe uses chemicals to "explains "empty," fire it's finished," the 4 inches). If he likes it, he enlarges it is 29. He pours two to three you where the bronze will go." obtain the patina he wants: ; it to 20 inches or more in clay. the natural bronze look of a month depending on demand and sculptor explains. Next he melts the bronze down Transfield doesn't However, : Then he makes a rubber mold. economics. greenish brown or marble-lookin- g care for terra cotta as much as he From there he pours wax into the in the crucible at 2,000 degrees He. are The "Madonna" piece took him the options7 among mold. Next he dips the wax in pours the. bronze into the ceramic How many copies does he six months to "complete; "Christ maintain," he said. "Plus when you-madip and dry, shell. When it's cool, he smashes "slurry" nine times Healing" took him a year from pour? a mold for bronze you can do the ceramic shell and the sculptor "In the olden days 12 was the beginning to end. dip and dry to build up a ceramic mnnv Rnlhpr than Art mnrf fprra cotta (or tne same piece) t can te. " ' " . r ' , -working on another moid tor ; ' , ' .. and studied under 3ari Fisher, "one of the best sculptors in the U.S. there is," he says. 1 "He (Fisher) skipped modern .art and went back to the techniques rsity-Hawaii pr; the whole concept of the jRenaissance era: Leonardo di Vinci ;and Michelangelo," Transfield ';' ; explains. : The sculptor learned design from Fisher. "He taught me the spirit and meaning behind your piece. If you don't have anything" good to sculpt, don't sculpt it," Transfield says. "You need to have meaning behind it." After his schooling in Hawaii, Transfield and his wife, Kelly, moved to New Zealand where he taught at a junior college and , v w stone-lookin- g, ke , . 1 " - 'l ; , ' t ' x . ' . ' i t - V another piece." Transfield's day job is with tf Adonis Bronze in Orem, which makes it convenient because they ' ' allow him fo use their facilities for r his piecef . ' . ' The three toddlers at the Transv ; field honie are so used to DudjJyl having a room set aside fotjuC work that they ask friends, "To-yo-u have a sculpting room?" i His wife is equally proud of him and says, "Most sculptors are not ' this good in this short of time, but he had such a creat teacher fin Jan ; ; . V r :: - w - J " Fisher." ' K She adds that, she marvels at ; what her husband creates. "It always blows me away. I'll watch him sketch and say, 'Wow!' Even though I know he's so talented, I'm ,. surprised." What are his feelings when a : sculpture is finally finished? "Kind of mixed emotions. Hapr . j py and sad. Happy that Ira finished, but I'm still not satisfied, which drives me on to the next one. As a child he liked V; to draw, now he sculpts. "What used if. v " i - b n V7V " ' " V Ivy, I'wVh .. V I (! ' .,; .: VV'Sr 7 to frustrate me Is couldn't take it (the drawing) off the page and touch it and hold, it. I wanted it to have,' a presence." LeRoy TransfieJd, ' sculptor M . .. I E v-- o 5 ........Afi I iirfrn m i tiff St" a mi. - iiimiiiilffiT- At tha (ower left and in tha ontsr phod to Transfield worka on a sculpture "Human Race." The sculptor hapee to have the piece completed In time for the Olympics. When he Is finished ft will portray three muscular figures explod i ing forward. H "l Tha statue t tho left i pail of rfjsa ot sculptural portraying working It of woman. include 8 aculpiura woman raking Iswsi awl anothM I tura ot a woman washing har hU. ntt-tie- - - ' , .Jii rti " poorTcHI . - ' |
