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(From the WEBSITE) In art, everything that is used to fashion, fabricate, festoon, colour, characterise, clearcoat – and – all other things, comes from the earth. Often there is a tertiary process that converts the molecules from the soil to useful and usable products. The conversion is facilitated by animals (humans are one of such). Consider:….leather, wood, petrol, feathers, steel, bronze, glaze……etc. An (almost) endless list. Nature produces all of the raw materials and often, humankind converts those materials into other materials that broaden the scope for artefacts and art.Stone, mineral pigments, timber and fibrous strands were the first "traditional" materials. As technologies evolved clay, fibres, and molten metals became the new "traditional" materials. Now, paint and colour technologies allow artists greater freedom. As does oxy-acetylene for the sculptor of metals.Chemical conversions have produced high performance materials for aerospace and naval applications. Similar technologies have produced the materials that are used in the masks. Minerals, pigments, pulverised copper, resins and surface coatings; the new "traditional" materials that afford freedom of expression."….. Firstly, I sculpted the masks, using my wife as a "smile" model – and using a mirror, to get the facial muscle changes to my liking. There are seven faces in the collection. A set of moulds was produced for each face, to allow for reproduction. Each mask is unique because of the random copper grain and (in the case of the painted masks), the colours &/or styling ensures that each is an original.The wall masks are mounted in a frame with a ceramic insert. The inner frame is a product of my workshop as is the ornate outer frame. The ornate frame original was sculpted using patterns that were developed (by craftsmen) over a hundred years ago. . Mine are produced from moulds taken from my original frame sculpted patterns".