Abstract and Contemporary Sculpture in Metal and Stone by Pamela Soldwedel

Work in Progress | Abstract & Contemporary Sculpture in Metal and Stone by Pamela Soldwedel

abstract sculpture by Pamela Soldwedel

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Pamela Soldwedel has a spiritual connection with stone. She is inspired by its ancient life history. It was once very much alive, and the artist's goal is to revitalize its massive strength in her abstract sculpture, through transforming the seemingly immutable material into soft forms with supple movements.

Soldwedel abstract metal and bronze sculpture captures the movement of the waters in her flowing forms. Sleekly patinated or mirror finishes, intensified by the rough contrast of her carefully tooled striations, express wind-ruffled ocean surfaces, churning ocean depths, and foam flecked waves.

Pamela Soldwedel's sculptures have evolved into fresh new dimensions with her mixed media abstractions...joinings of layered stone and metal, plastics, glass and wood bring a multitude of expressions to her creations.

Work in Progress by Pamela Soldwedel

Below you will find pictures of Pamela Soldwedel
at work on creating various pieces of sculpture.
Click on any of the pictures to view a larger image.
Pamela Soldwedel sculpture
Pam creating LEAPFROG II and LEAPFROG III (Games People Play),
both of River Jack granite.
Earth Child sculpture by Pamela Soldwedel
Pam bringing EARTH CHILD (Seismic Baby) into being.
Pamela Soldwedel Fine Sculpture
Pam creating NUANCE
contemporary sculpture
Pam creating the monumental "We Are" in her studio
Pamela Soldwedel sculpture
Pam begins carving
Third Wave		 contemporary sculpture
Pam in studio
stone sculpture
Pamela looks for
Ishtar stone in quarry		 contemporary stone sculpture
Carving Ishtar
contemporary sculpture
Pamela carves Ishtar		 contemporary sculpture
Pamela sanding Ishtar
contemporary sculpture
Pamela showing relief
after installing Ishtar		 contemporary stone sculpture
Fireflower patination
stone sculpture
Plaster model of
Search		 abstract sculpture
Pamela carves
Sea Life
contemporary sculpture
Pam working on
Third Wave		 ontemporary sculpture
Pam working on
Mantra II
contemporary sculpture
Pam working on
Stones, Shells, Waves		 contemporary sculpture
Pam working on
Sagarmatha
contemporary sculpture
Pam hugging the 34,600
pound mother stone that
became Ishtar III


Pamela Soldwedel Art Gallery of
Abstract Stone Sculptures

Pamela Soldwedel has a spiritual connection with stone. She is inspired by its ancient life history. It was once very much alive, and the artist's goal is to revitalize its massive strength in her abstract sculpture, through transforming the seemingly immutable material into soft forms with supple movements.

She is fascinated by the way in which she can express her feelings working with the stones' color, texture and grain to create her abstract stone sculptures.

She labors, lovingly, her chisel biting into the rocky earth-flesh, to transmit her messages, enthralled by the ever-changing sight, sound, touch and smell of stone.

Ishtar III

abstract stone sculpture

Click above photo
to see how Ishtar
came to be

Pamela Soldwedel's sculptures have evolved into fresh new dimensions with her mixed media abstractions...joinings of layered stone and metal, plastics, glass and wood bring a multitude of expressions to her creations.

For the viewer, something different and fascinating is presented from every angle and every change of light, especially so due to the sculptor's intriguing use of sinuous shapes in her abstract sculptures.

These mixed media sculpture abstractions capture adventurous essences of nature. Lyrical in movement, they are well composed and as beautifully finished as fine jewelry. Each piece gives delight to the eye and touch, and seems imbued with a life of its own. Delicately poised on a minute footprint, there is a sense of tension...there's mystery...there's surprise.