Grace And Elegance In Stainless Steel
Howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas!
As many of you know, I've been finding wire sculptures to share on my posts and I found a new artist(at least to me) that deserves his own post. He's from the U.K. and his name is Martin Debenham.
He works with stainless steel wire and produces absolutely stunning masterpieces. Here are a few of them.
Minimalist perfection:
Check out this amazing Mermaid:
Most of his work is designed to be in natural settings like this gorgeous eagle:
Look at the perfect shaping of the wire:
Martin is an expert welder, look at the perfect welds:
He also does "Portraits."
This is a self portrait:
Here's a wall hanging:
To me this one looks like a wisp of smoke rising:
The design variety is endless:
All photosMr. Debenham didn't go to art school, he's self taught! I call it a natural gift. It'll be interesting to see his work continue in the future.
Thanks for stopping by folks, God bless you all!
-jonboy
Texas
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Beautiful work. Another artist you might like, Harry Bertoia. He did all kinds of wire art also he made these amazing gongs and chimes. I know his daughter well and had the fortune of meeting his wife a few times. She would ring this gigantic gong that was mounted above his grave every year on his birthday and I was fortunate to be present at one of these ceremonies, very cool.
Howdy sir hhayweaver! Good to see you! Very interesting, is his artwork on a website somewhere? Are you posting these days?
Not posting these day, just curating and commenting.
Here is a link to an interesting article I found.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/sound-sculptor-harry-bertoia-created-musical-meditative-art#stream/0
Here is another link - lots of info.
https://harrybertoia.org/
The sound sculptures are truly amazing. I was fortunate enough to get a tour through his studio to see and hear his art. There was this one "gong" is was like a large rectangular sheet of metal that had been hammered into a wavy shape. You tapped (you didn't his it hard) on it repeatedly, rather quickly with this relatively small mallet. At first you did not hear anything, maybe for the first 10 - 15 seconds, then a very low rumble started to come from the metal sheet that built into an extremely loud roar (like a lion), almost hurt your ears, then the sound was gone in an instant, just like that.
That barn was full of many amazing pieces of art, not just his sound sculptures but quite a few wire sculptures, sheet metal sculptures, and paintings, truly awesome. I hope you enjoy learning about Harry.
Howdy sir hhayweaver! Thanks so much for the links, his work is truly remarkable, never heard of anything like it before!
Very impressive! I particularly like the eagle and the tree! Tell him to make me a badger! 🤣
lol! oh man, that would be awesome! I think he does commission work but most of these pieces are about 5 or $6,000 apiece!
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Martin Debenham has a gift from God ❤ His modern art is terrific!
Howdy zirochka! I agree, it is truly a gift and a blessing!
Incredible. That mermaid is beautiful and the Eagle is breathtaking. Thanks for sharing this. Made my day.
Howdy squirrelbait! I agree about the artwork, it's stunning. I bet Eagle Eyes could do that, he might have to brush up on his welding. lol. I know. You design them and he could weld them up. This guys sells his for about 6 grand apiece, I forgot to mention that.
6 grand a piece. Yeah, I believe it. Cost of the metal and tons of time. Yeah, I believe it. Unique and unique is always valuable.
Can you imagine the patience it must take to build something like that? I know art isn't supposed to be quick or easy, but that's just impressive.
Howdy sir wwwiebe! I know, I don't know how he gets it into perfect position in order to weld it either because metal moves when you heat it and weld on it so it has to stay in position or he molds it into perfect shape afterwords. Either way it's incredible and mine would look like a jumble of shiny wires!
Wonderful, they are beautiful works. I love the movement and the fluidity of the forms
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Howdy there zainnyferdhoy! I agree, incredible skill and vision to create such pieces. Thanks so much for commenting!
How beautiful janton. I love the mermaid.
I agree, thanks for appreciating the artwork!
You are very welcome. I always like stopping by.
Gorgeous
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Thank you clitadias, I agree!
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