Ruth Burink

The dove is the Spirit, is wind, is fire, and all of this inspires my dove sculptures. The Gifts of the Spirit somehow work their way into my consciousness as I work. The bird-shape is free to become what it wants and so is one of my favorite subjects.

The creative process – artist to art object – filters through the artist's mental lens tinted by her life experience, training, spirituality, and so on. Then visual acuity and manual dexterity add another layer. When asked what primarily influences my own sculpture, I credit the stone itself. For me, creative inspiration is circular, beginning with the stone, through me and my "stuff", and then back into the stone. Stone might appear static, but it is not. There is always this continuous creative movement between carver and carving until the sculpture is complete. This is the joy and the challenge of stone carving.

Like the Oriental artists, I emphasize harmony of line and form and the beautiful execution of a simple theme. As the sculpture takes shape it does the most marvelous things to the stone. What was already beautiful, the natural stone, has now become a thing even more compelling than it was in its original form.

It is an honor and a pleasure to have this opportunity to share my sculpture with you. I consider my sculpture contemporary and abstract, figurative and nature-centered.

Ruth Burink is an American sculptor working in stone and bronze. Her contemporary sculpture is primarily figurative and nature-centered tending toward the abstract, and often spiritual in concept. She works in various types of stone and in bronze, casting her bronze pieces from an original carved in stone. Her awardwinning sculpture can be seen several galleries and in international shows and collections. She welcomes commissions for stone and bronze sculpture.

Ruth Burink
(719) 481-0513
e-mail: ruth@burinksculpture.com
website: www.burinksculpture.com