Morning Glory

Green Mexican Alabaster on a white marble base
Size: 13” high x 8” wide x 7” deep

This sculpture of a Morning Glory was commissioned (by her husband) for the owner of my frequently visited, favorite local nursery. I have found that in the garden, time stands still for me, in the same way it does in my studio.

Full Moon at Low Tide

Chocolate Brown Alabaster on a dark cream marble base
Size: 12” high x 7” wide x 7” deep

Walking on the beach at low tide during a full moon you might find something like this. The small translucent places in this dark brown alabaster reminded me of moon light reflecting on the wet sea shells at the water’s edge. The irregular shape and color of the base represents the shifting sands of the nighttime beach.

Lily and The Leaf

Green and Orange Colored Colorado Alabaster on a dark green marble base
Size: 10” high x 6 ½” wide x 5 ½” deep

The natural green and orange spotted color variations in this stone add so much to this sculpture.

Sisters

(East)
Michigan Alabaster on a white marble base
Size: 17” high x 8” wide x 4 ½” deep

This sculpture is of two women, one from the “East” and the other from the “West”. These women are carved in the negative so what you see is their clothing. One is wearing a kimono… her head is tiled slightly forward so her eyes look down and you can almost see her knees bend in a slight bow of greeting. The other wears an 1800’s wind swept, wool cape… her head held high as she stands on the dock gazing east, out to sea.

Sisters

(West)
Michigan Alabaster on a white marble base
Size: 17” high x 8” wide x 4 ½” deep

This sculpture is of two women, one from the “East” and the other from the “West”. These women are carved in the negative so what you see is their clothing. One is wearing a kimono… her head is tiled slightly forward so her eyes look down and you can almost see her knees bend in a slight bow of greeting. The other wears an 1800’s wind swept, wool cape… her head held high as she stands on the dock gazing east, out to sea.

Autumn Frost

Cream Colored Colorado Alabaster on a walnut wood base
Size: 17” high x 9” wide x 6” deep

She is a flower that was caught in an early “Autumn Frost” and did not get to bloom.

Wind Dancer

Alaskan Soapstone on a white Georgia marble base
Size: 8” high x 4 ½” wide x 4 ½” deep

Most people don’t see the female torso wrapped in this twisted, wind filled cloth until they look the second time.

Mother and Child

Michigan Alabaster on a black marble base
Size: 19” high x 6” wide x 6” deep

This was a fun commission… At the age of about ten, I was the flower girl at this couples wedding. Being the youngest in my family, their young and growing family was the first that I remember of babies. When they asked me to do a sculpture of my choosing for them, it only seemed natural to choose “Mother and Child” as the subject. They were delighted.

Wild Flowers

Dendrite Alabaster/Soapstone on a black marble base
Size:5” high x 4” wide x 4” deep

This small flower sculpture shows a main flower form on one side. As you turn it the other side shows three or four smaller flower forms.

Tybee

Italian Translucent Alabaster on a walnut wood base
Size: 24” high x 20” wide x 6” deep

Tybee is a shell form that I named after Tybee Island near Savanna, Georgia. I have done several shell forms over the years naming each one after a favorite beach. The sculpture is not of a particular shell but of several different shells or pieces of shells, twisting and turning forming shadows and memories of the ocean.

Work in progress…

Watch for new sculptures in progress…

Lycanthrope

Dark Green Soapstone and Light Green Soapstone, free standing
Size: 6 ½ “ high x 8” wide x 6” deep

Won Best of Show, Rabun Art Festival Georgia Council for the Arts, Northeast Georgia 1996

A writer friend saw “Lycanthrope” and then wrote this poem:

Lycanthrope by Ann Long

©June 17,1996

My Dwelling, my being, is a room dimly lit.
Shared by twain; neither kin
To each. Nor other. Though two,
Utterly alone. I dare no friend, nor lover;
No comrade. None. But of pleasure, agony.
One the same. Lycaeon’s curse which urges lupine lust for
Crimson nectar deep within the human flower, beside this
Man who owns no hour, but quits when ancient
Blinded eye, rises East to rend the sky and hears as far away
Primevil howl, that wakens child abed, raises revenants from the dead
And sends the strong man begging to his
Knees.
Wisdom to instinct, man to beast.
So repeat the Christian name thrice if you dare, to stare down yellow eyes within the lair
And tarry not with overwhelming fear (but to thy God first utter prayer)
And of devouring Lycanthrope
Beware!

Baby Elephant

Indiana Limestone on a black marble base
Size: 7” high x 6” wide x 6” deep

It would be fun to do more animal sculptures in limestone… only seven feet tall instead of seven inches… (or maybe four feet tall)… Indiana Limestone is such a pretty buff color and always adds so much to any garden.

Sea Otter

Colorado Alabaster, free standing
Size: 7” high x 7” wide x 6” deep

Sea Otter is floating on his back with food resting on his tummy.
I used a bush hammer, a tool that reminds me of a meat tenderizer, to achieve the white textured area that represents the water and contracted it with the smooth sanded “Sea Otter”.

St. John‘s Pass

Italian Translucent Alabaster on a black marble base
Size: 17” high x 7” wide x 7” deep

Although I was raised in Florida, it still surprises me how much the ocean influences my art. I have done several shell forms over the years naming each one after a favorite beach. The shell forms are not of a particular shell but of several different shells or pieces of shells. They twist and turn forming shadows and memories of the ocean.

Work in progress…

Watch for new sculptures in progress…