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Show " r - " ' J J A ' v, :; i. S ". ". ' -.. This beautiful piece of "sculptured furniture" is the work of Escalante resident David Delthony who was recently honored by the Utah Arts Council with the Fellowship Award. Escalante Artist Receives Prestigious Utah Arts Council Fellowship Award ESCALANTE - Escalante 's David Delthony was one of two recent winners of the Utah Arts Council's prestigious Fellowship Fellow-ship Awards. Delthony, who was raised in New York, was honored for his uniquely finewood furniture and Jean Arnold" of Salt Lake City for her mixed media drawings. . The work of both artists is being exhibited at the Art Council's Rio Gallery located at 310 South Rio Grande St., (455 West) in Salt Lake City through Nov. 1, Mondays through Fridays, from 9 am to 5 pm. Delthony and his wife Brigitte moved to Escalante in 1996 from West Berlin, Germany, where they had lived and worked for 25 years. After receiving a B.A. from Haverford College, Pennsylvania, David moved to Germany in 1972 where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, culminating culminat-ing his studies with a degree in Interior Design. In the following follow-ing years, he worked as a cabinet cabi-net maker and obtained his certification cer-tification as a Master Craftsman in 1979. After establishing his one-man workshop as a free lance artist and craftsman, he developed his unique style of "Sculptured Furniture" which he exhibited in numerous shows overseas. While visiting the southwest in 1994, David and Brigitte bought the former Vidrine sawmill property on Highway (See AWARD on page 5A) Award From Pase 2A 1 2, just west of Escalante, relocating relo-cating there two years later. Following construction of a new workshop for both of them, David continued making his sculptured furniture which he now displays in selected shows and galleries in the southwest. Long before moving to canyon country, the flowing, organic forms of David's furniture furni-ture were already reminiscent of the natural formations found in southern Utah. He laminates both hardwoods and plywoods to create forms which he then sculpts using a chain saw, then sanding to the final shape. The time and labor-intensive process of creating sculptured furniture results in works which are both artistically sculptured and practical prac-tical pieces of fine furniture. The process of laminating and chain sawing allows him to tran scend the boundaries normally associated with furniture. Together with his German-born German-born wife Brigitte and their two dogs, they also maintain a large vegetable garden for themselves and visitors. Brigitte also works as an artist in their studioworkshop, stu-dioworkshop, creating primitive primi-tive pottery, archaic clay sculptures sculp-tures and giving private art classes for children and adults. In Germany, she had worked primarily as an art teacher and art therapist, but received her teacher accreditation in Utah after moving to Escalante and taught art in the Escalante High School for the first year and a half. Each year she still gives a summer art workshop for local children. Both David and Brigitte enjoy working, living and finding inspiration in such beautiful, natural surroundings. |