The San Diego Fine Arts Society and Quail Botanical Gardens accept abutting armament to actualize a larger-than-life acquaintance for visitors. Hoping to contentment and inspire, 16 sculptures by 14 bounded artists accept been installed throughout the alien plants and foliage of the 30-acre Quail Botanical Gardens in Encinitas, Calif.
"The sculptures add an absolutely new and admirable ambit to what visitors acquaintance in the Gardens,” said Julian Duval, President and CEO of Quail Botanical Gardens. “They acutely appearance how important the Gardens are as a area for art and afflatus for approaching possibilities."
SD Fine Art Society nurtures art by abutting artists with the association who appreciates their work. By mentoring artists and bringing their plan to the public, collectors and curators, both art and the ability of the association can thrive.
"We’re putting art area humans go,” said April Game, CEO/Executive Director of San Diego Fine Arts. “By partnering with Quail Botanical Gardens we are able to crop adept art and abode it a allotment of the adorableness of nature, creating something absurd for visitors to experience.”
Each area has been carefully and artistically placed throughout the Gardens auspicious visitors to adore the accustomed mural in a accomplished new way.
At the access to the South African garden is a adventuresome lion, “The Lion of Flanders”, by Ilona J. Passino. Crafted of hand-cut, confused marble and emblazoned with a circuitous of decrepit glass, the bobcat angrily looks out above the pathway, spying a brownish giraffe, by Dave Ghilarducci.
An 8½-foot alpine woman stands in addition allotment of the Gardens; “Sophia” represents Mother Earth in animal form. Created by Carolyn Guerra and Kathryn Weiss, her foreground depicts the adorableness of sunshine, blithely black flowers and the warms of daylight. Her aback represents the abusage of the planet, with a circuitous that shows night and darkness.
“The aboriginal abstraction (of “Sophia”) was acquired from the afflatus of recycling,” said Artist Carolyn Guerra, who collaborated with Artist Kathryn Weiss. “In an accomplishment to advance recycling, the abject of the carve is a alone auto annoy rim; the supports of the accoutrements are bike annoy rims and the abaft and apprehension are acclimated tennis balls.”
The accustomed elements acclimated to actualize these aboriginal artworks alloy beautifully with the accustomed adorableness of the Gardens.
Other pieces include:
•“Tree Beneath The Sea” by James Stone – a mix of hot glass, animate and asphalt apery the attending and feel of activity below the ocean surface
•“The Voyage” by Terry Kuntz – a redwood bronze on a rock abject with a abyssal feel, actualization austere a allotment of the alarming foliage backdrop
•“Wind Dancer” by Charles Bronson – chestnut with abject brighten and abject ice base
•“Giant Fairy Tale Bunny” by Carl Glowienke – fabricated of bronze
•“Osprey” by Maria De Castro – fabricated of clay, glass, metal, copse & acrylic acrylic giving amusing appearance and personality to this ample bird creature
•“Freewill” by Carolyn Guerra – accurate covered with bottle and circuitous tiles apery the dichotomy of acceptable and evil, allurement
•“I Am Woman” by Carolyn Guerra – fabricated of able forton and recycled abstracts and covered in bottle and asphalt mosaic, this area inspires us to recycle and conserve
•“Kelp Man” by DJ Brelje – fabricated of animate appearance a amount that seems to be ascent out of the foliage, affiliated to it
•“A Triflow of Truth” by Lia Strell – a 12-foot animate carve with brownish chestnut finish
•“Century” and “Ocotillo” by Benjamin Lavender – animate sculptures depicting bulb life
•“Ascent” by Fred Briscoe – a 6-foot redwood carve on a brownish basement with an about leaf-life design, artful the different shapes begin in nature
•“Ascend” by Joey Vaiasuso – a brownish carve with an amoebic geometric form
•“Steeples” by Christine Beniston – a accumulating of stacked, active bowl totems
The sculptures will be on affectation at Quail Botanical Gardens until the end of October. Visitors are accustomed from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, acceptance and breath military, $5 for accouchement ages 3-12 and chargeless to accouchement ages 2 and adolescent and Members of the Gardens.
About Quail Gardens
Set on 30 acreage in arctic bank San Diego County, Quail Botanical Garden’s mission is to affect humans of all ages to affix with plants and nature. By accumulation a array of area with added than 3,500 plants, trails and built-in habitat, Quail Botanical Gardens provides an haven of accord and ataraxia aural a growing city. Quail Botanical Gardens is a 501(c)(3) accommodating organization. For added advice on approaching contest and educational programs, appointment www.qbgardens.org.
The San Diego Fine Art Society nurtures the conception and acknowledgment of accomplished art by acknowledging the role of accomplished art in adjacency canning and revitalization. SD Fine Arts increases art adventures and opportunities for all associates of the association through bounded partnerships with the business association and by accouterment job and ambitious training and mentoring opportunities in the arts. For added advice appointment www.sdfas.org.
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