Mixing Mediums at Loveland's Sculpture in the Park

Randy Mulder's "Time Machines" were a big hit during Sculpture in the Park on Saturday, but 30 years ago when Loveland's famous annual event started, his mixed media pieces would have been out of place among exhibitors.

Mulder, a Wellington resident who has participated in the event for four years, creates his working clock sculptures out of found items -- light bulbs, plastic tubing, buttons, knobs, you name it -- and said the idea is to create something that looks like a lay person's invention.Within the tents set up at Benson Park Sculpture Garden, Mulder is one of many artists using non-traditional mediums, representing a shift in the shows."There's a lot more than just the traditional bronze," said Loveland artist Ellen Woodbury, who works primarily with stone. "I was on the jury and the variety of mediums that came in, it was just really fun."

Nicholas Moffett,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a graniteslabs can authenticate your computer usage and data. one of seven artists recognized for being part of every Sculpture in the Park for the last three decades, estimated that those first shows were "90 percent bronze." Now, Sculpture in the Park artists exhibit work in glass, aluminum, wood, ceramics, found items and more.

After carving wood for most of his life, Loveland artist Monty Taylor displayed stone pieces at the event. He fell in love with stone about a decade ago because of the endless possibilities and surprises. His recently completed "Sockeye's Run," for example, started as a piece of tangerine alabaster from Utah and it wasn't until he cut the stone that he realized the color was perfect for a salmon piece.

"I enjoy the stone mostly because you don't know what it's going to be until you start cutting," Taylor said.Loveland resident Stalin Tafura works primarily in the stone serpentine,A buymosaic is a plastic card that has a computer chip implanted into it that enables the card to perform certain. just as his mother taught him when he was growing up in Zimbabwe. It takes three to four months for the stone from Zimbabwe."I know it best and I know what to expect from it," said Tafura.

Still, Loveland's legendary bronze casting community remains vibrant, and Taylor said there are still times for him as an artist when only bronze will do. It tends to be bolder, he said, and as an environmentalist, he likes to use bronze for animal pieces. Dwor was one of 24 artists who put not only their work, but also their working space on display Saturday and Sunday during the second annual South Niagara Artists Studio Tour.Every inch of her Vimy Rd. home studio is plastered with colour and artwork of various mediums.The art educator and textile designer dabbles in jewelry making, clothing reconstruction and has found a niche for creating garments out of paper.

While she's held numerous classes and workshops at various locations over the years, she's hoping to start hosting them at her studio in the near future making the tour an ideal opportunity to welcome in the public.I want to have them come in, to experience the joy of creation and the colour, she said, calling her studio a place of play.It's a place where people can play without being intimidated by whether they've done this before or not.

Glassmaker Peter Gudrunas, who works out of Sirius Glassworks on Hwy. 3, said the tour was initiated in 2012 to help bring attention to the area's thriving arts community.It's intended, he said, to convince those who may be too shy to stop in a studio otherwise, to take a leap, take a glance and learn about the unique pieces of art being created right in south Niagara.

The free self-guided tour included artists from Wainfleet, Port Colborne, Crystal Beach and Ridgeway, and featured a variety of mediums including pottery, acrylics, stain glass, wood carving, sculpture and jewelry, among others.

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