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Sandy Cline

Downy

Sandy Cline was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, just before WW2. Undaunted by wartime shortages, the family took to carving toys out of wood. Having been told that he had no talent for the arts, Sandy, true to his adverturesome spirit, signed up for draughting. While working as a draughtsman for the Department of National Defense in Ottawa, his frequent trips to the National Gallery of Canada, inspiration by artist Lawren Harris and a collection of artists of all description steered him into less mechanical visual expressions. He began oil painting.

While living in pre-trendy Yorkvill of Toronto, Sandy met his wife Rita - the beginning of a lifelong partnership. To make ends meet in Toronto, he began to carve wooden objects to sell to tourists. When it was pointed out to him that he was a better carver than a painter, Sandy changed his medium once again, this time to working in stone.

Thirty-five years later, Sandy is working for his craft full-time although he takes time out to pass on his great wealth of knowledge and experience to fledging artists at the Haliburton School of Fine Arts.

"Each piece I make is a statement, I'm leaving little bits of me and how I feel." he says. "You have to work with the stone because if you try to make it something it doesn't want to be, it will break. You become part of the piece, and you can feel if it is right."

Polar Bear	Springtime
Bear Cub	Dolphin
Grizzly	Mother
Kingfisher	Original
Nuthatch
Otter	Ferret

 

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