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Bio Photo Leo Atkinson
Sculptor

I’m a self-taught lapidary artist, turned sculptor. Much of the fun is in procuring the stone with which I work. Stone, to me, represents the most basic and elemental (conscious) form of matter on Earth. Since, as humans, we all experience a need to create, my creative attainment seems to g...

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...ravitate and attract "energy" of Minerals and Fossils. One of my most passionate challenges as an artist is to achieve perfection in form with out destroying any of the essential elements of the intrinsic beauty and component parts of a fossil or mineral specimen. I sense my special contract and relationship with Earth Mother and honor her. It is Her creations that inspire my own creativity and direct my hand in sculpting. I endeavor to assist us to reconnect to our Source via out appreciation of her many gifts in the multi-varied forms of Nature; expressly in the Mineral Kingdom which acts for me as my palette.