Monday, 13 May 2013

Aldona Juska

Aldona Juska


What caught my eye with this piece is the use of copper to form the daffodil petal, I'm not a big fan of sculpture, but I like that fact that this wasn't your everyday piece of sculpture. Aldona is Yorkshire born of Lithuanian descent and has spent most of her life either in Australia or America working as a librarian. However, living in Los Angeles she had opportunities to work with Mexican blacksmiths and discovered her passion for design and metal work. Upon returning to the UK she took a college course in creative metal art and started welding for herself in her studio in Edinburgh in 2002. The mainstay of her work is botanical art from single stems to large complex pieces combined together to produce candelabras. She has been invited to exhibit in several European cities most recently Munich and Florence.

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