Campbell Glynn Paxton

I create small sculptures on mythological themes.  I use the human body to explore movement in space; action and reaction; and the problems of "open" and "closed" form.  I do not deny myself subject, but rather revel in it to explore emotion through my choice of myth and the consequent situations offered therein.  I enjoy researching the traditional concept and iconography and then delve deeper into more obscure interpretations to see if I can make any logical leaps in mythic reason; to see if I can add any nuance of meaning when I am done playing and my plastic actors have finally settled on a pose.  In this work I hope to make objects that move, delight, and instruct or, at least, provide incentive to explore the sources I set askew.

My works are basically domestic.  They are created to be in the hands of an individual; to be touched, turned, and examined with the naked eye (after all, turn about is fair play).  Their scale, which is grossly distorted by a slide presentation, denies the pompous heroism of more monumental sculpture. (They are conversational rather than rhetorical; intimate rather than public.) Indeed, if my creations do not make large statements, they at least make side remarks which might induce thought or contemplation.

Campbell Glynn Paxton

Sculpture

St. Michael Fights the Dragon polymer clay		Spirit of Tanagra Shard polymer clay		Deco Adonis polymer clay
Kneeling Youth with Fillet polymer clay SOLD		Capriccio with Ruins and Figures polymer clay SOLD		"Fluff" in a Huff polymer clay
Cat on a Rug polymer clay		Venus "pudica" Deco polymer clay		Back Study Shard polymer clay
Torso in Torsion polymer clay		Earth Mother Torso polymer clay		Sea Goddess Fragment polymer clay
Partial Victory polymer clay SOLD		Tanagra Esque Fragment polymer clay		Red, Red, Rubens polymer clay
Floating Wind God Fragment polymer clay		Flight of Fancy Shard polymer clay		Colossus polymer clay
David Study terra cotta		S Curve Venus Fragment terra cotta SOLD		Paris Contemplates His Choice terra cotta
Deco Mercury Fragment terra cotta		Adonis Awakes terra cotta		Boucher Bather Back terra cotta
Blindfolded Atlantid Fragment terra cotta		Jupiter Bringer of Jollity terra cotta		Vegetative Satyr Arabesque terra cotta
Worried Cat terra cotta		And the Pan Played On terra cotta		Bountiful Harvest terra cotta
		Pan Races a Doe, Having Passed a Buck terra cotta