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

Back Wrapt in Thought bronze, 8" high SOLD		Little Moon Gazer polymer clay, 3 x 2 inches		Female Fragment (Torso to Thigh) polymer clay, 5 x 2 inches
Pierrot and the Moon polymer clay, 8" high SOLD		Deco "Winter" polymer clay, 9" high SOLD		Chamois polymer clay, 2.5 x 3.5 inches