A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTIST
I'm Rick Cain. I've been an artist all my life and a professional artist
since 1973. Those who know me and are familiar with my work know how special
my sculpture is to me and how much pleasure I receive when someone is affected
by it. That's why I'm so pleased to present this line of limited edition
sculptures. The pieces in the line are classic portrayals of subject matter
and themes which represent the essence of my work, produced in limited
editions, each one signed and numbered in sequence. The wood pieces are
cold cast resin with pecan shell dust to give the warm undertone and weight
of wood. The stone pieces are cold cast resin with stone dust. Each piece
is a fingerprint of the original with its own unique color, the water based
stains and acrylic washes carefully applied by hand. I have written a free-verse
poem and a story about the material from which the original was created
for each piece in the series. You'll find them on a special little card
that comes with the sculpture.
Yours to enjoy....Rick Cain
SCULPTOR'S PROFILE
Since a very early age, Rick Cain has been pursuing a career as an artist.
While most young boy's dreams of their future change dramatically over
time, Rick remained true to his conviction that he was born with a creative
talent. Born into a military family in 1953, Rick found security and strength
in his artistic ability during his adjustment to numerous moves around
the country. Every day he would work to teach himself the techniques that
have remained constant in every medium in which he has worked - great attention
to detail, depth, and dimension in both the human and animal form. Rick
began working with wood at the age of twenty. He progressed rapidly past
merely creating designs in the wood and discovered an ability to "release"
the shapes and images inherent in the wood. By this time, Rick had settled
in Florida and the indigenous tropical hardwoods lent themselves beautifully
to the wizened old men's faces and graceful forms that Rick created. Within
months, Rick Cain was showing at his first art exhibit. His professional
career flourished with participation in hundreds of juried art shows, exhibitions,
and recognition through numerous awards. In 1988, Rick made the decision
to offer his work in limited editions. Rick Cain's original works as well
as his limited edition sculptures are in private and public collections
throughout the world.
A STATEMENT FROM RICK CAIN ABOUT HIS ART
I am ever changing as a part of the human experience and so my art follows
my changes. Doing wildlife sculpture is one way of communicating with a
large audience on a common ground. Through these wildlife sculptures, we
celebrate the creation of creatures great and small who share with us a
world through which we are moving. When I sculpt, I use nature's abstraction,
nature's call for us to identify with her. This comes through in wood shapes,
stone fragments of a mountain or other materials as they present themselves
to me. Connected to this, and the predecessor to my wildlife work was my
representation of man - mankind - woman - child - caught in our own head
by our thought. These human forms I have sculpted breaking boundaries,
and becoming complete. The character of humanness cycles and merges with
tigers, herons, elephants, and turtles. They become part and counterpart
on a shared path. To see just an eagle in my work is to short change oneself...to
fly with the bird is possible if you allow yourself that space in your
perception. If you feel this oneness, then I am complete and have done
my task for meeting with you. This is my hello and my statement of truth
and humble offering. My path is yours...a path of breathing, loving, curiosity,
another step. I love the thrill of growth and exploration, seeing myself
and my art evolve, revolve, and cycle again. I believe that my expression
of art is a gift tome that I share with you. Stores and galleries and individuals
may be a part of the blessing our representatives may share. My art is
an approach to life. Do you know how many times I have sculpted, carved,
painted and thought? Thinking is a process. Good and bad, it occurs. Wood
has taught me patience and a level of endurance I could not approach before
I first picked up wood. My art is a communication device, a symbol people
can understand like words or pictures of life felt in the heart as well
as the hands and fingers. My art is a revealing for me. I do not know what
will happen on a given project I am working on and the unexpected happens
many times. I love it when I see the perfect plan unravel between my thoughts
and fingers and I am like a film developing. My art comes alive, offering
the viewer a piece of the puzzle, a fragment of the whole, to the reason
we are what we are.
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