Marilyn Terry
Marilyn Terry creates original bronze animal sculptures, which includes
horses, dogs, wolves, Scottish Deerhounds, and many other animals.
Marilyn was born in Wales, U.K., but lived her first seven years in Holland and Dutch was her first language. The wine country of Sonoma Valley in California has been her home for many years. After a long search for a mentor who would instruct her in sculpture in the classical manner, she was fortunate, while living in the Napa Valley in the early 1970's to become a student of the gifted sculptor, Joseph Query. She studied extensively with Joe and his small group of students, concentrating on life drawing and sculpture of the human figure. Her first animal bronze was cast in 1981 at Artworks Foundry in Berkeley. Please look at the Artworks Foundry website where exact details of the bronze casting process are clearly explained
Bronze casting is a highly complicated and exacting process, which is a reason a sculpture is intrinsically expensive. At Artworks Foundry each step of the bronze casting process is handled by talented people, most of whom are artists in their own right.
Animal subjects have always captivated Marilyn, especially horses, dogs and wolves. The wolf of Marilyn's childhood imagination came to life in the form of the first Siberian Husky she ever met, in the winter snows of Quebec's Laurentian Mountains in 1959, a gray Husky bred by the Seeley's Chinook kennel in New Hampshire. She has lived with these energetic and good-natured dogs ever since 1968.
In 1981 Marilyn, blissfully ignorant of the intense and complex nuances of wolf behavior, bought the wolf ‘Kiva' as a two-week baby who had to be bottle-fed. Kiva lived with Marilyn for seventeen eventful years until her death in 1998. Kiva was a source of inspiration for many of Marilyn's wolf sculptures, some of which are still in wax form. Kiva's life also led Marilyn to attend a wolf behavior seminar in 1990 at Wolf Park in Battle Ground, Indiana, where interactions with a tame captive wolf pack was a never-to-be-forgotten experience.
Marilyn gathers information for her sculptures from animals she has personally known or experienced, uses her own photographs, and sketches them from life. Correct anatomical detail and the image of the innate character of each animal are very important to her. She also creates animal portraits in bronze or oil on commission. Marilyn also works with scratchboard, and on gourds, using the woodburning technique with added dyes and colors.
Marilyn was born in Wales, U.K., but lived her first seven years in Holland and Dutch was her first language. The wine country of Sonoma Valley in California has been her home for many years. After a long search for a mentor who would instruct her in sculpture in the classical manner, she was fortunate, while living in the Napa Valley in the early 1970's to become a student of the gifted sculptor, Joseph Query. She studied extensively with Joe and his small group of students, concentrating on life drawing and sculpture of the human figure. Her first animal bronze was cast in 1981 at Artworks Foundry in Berkeley. Please look at the Artworks Foundry website where exact details of the bronze casting process are clearly explained
Bronze casting is a highly complicated and exacting process, which is a reason a sculpture is intrinsically expensive. At Artworks Foundry each step of the bronze casting process is handled by talented people, most of whom are artists in their own right.
Animal subjects have always captivated Marilyn, especially horses, dogs and wolves. The wolf of Marilyn's childhood imagination came to life in the form of the first Siberian Husky she ever met, in the winter snows of Quebec's Laurentian Mountains in 1959, a gray Husky bred by the Seeley's Chinook kennel in New Hampshire. She has lived with these energetic and good-natured dogs ever since 1968.
In 1981 Marilyn, blissfully ignorant of the intense and complex nuances of wolf behavior, bought the wolf ‘Kiva' as a two-week baby who had to be bottle-fed. Kiva lived with Marilyn for seventeen eventful years until her death in 1998. Kiva was a source of inspiration for many of Marilyn's wolf sculptures, some of which are still in wax form. Kiva's life also led Marilyn to attend a wolf behavior seminar in 1990 at Wolf Park in Battle Ground, Indiana, where interactions with a tame captive wolf pack was a never-to-be-forgotten experience.
Marilyn gathers information for her sculptures from animals she has personally known or experienced, uses her own photographs, and sketches them from life. Correct anatomical detail and the image of the innate character of each animal are very important to her. She also creates animal portraits in bronze or oil on commission. Marilyn also works with scratchboard, and on gourds, using the woodburning technique with added dyes and colors.