Featuring the work of:
Caz Bently
wood block prints
Daniel Bernyk
metal scuplture
Pat Burns-Wendland
hand spun weaving
Scott Caple
illustrations
Larry Cluchey
wood turning
Catherine Crowe
enamels
Dark Ages Re-creation Company
living history
Sandra Dunn
& Steve White
metalsmithing
Dianne Edwards
marquetry
Kelly Green
wood carving
Allison Hamilton
painting
Lydia Ilarion
fine metalwork
David Ivens
metalwork
Lloyd Johnson
forged metals
Mary Lazier
ceramics
Elsa Mann
ceramics
Darrell Markewitz
forged metals
Rosemary Molesworth
ceramics
Kelly Probyn-Smith
metalwork
Mark Puigmarti
forged metals
David Robertson
forged metals
Brenda Roy
fine metalwork
Rob Schweitzer
tablet weaving
Graeme Sheffield
forged metals
A.G. Smith
illustration
Steve Strang
painting & drawing
Ruth Swanson
ceramics
Kathryn Thomson
blown glass
Mark Tichenor
ceramics
Laura Travis
stone carving
Catherine VamVakas Lay
blown glass
Sara Washbush
fine metalwork
Brigitte Wolf
stained glass |
Graeme Sheffield
The Ironwood Anvil
Guelph, ON
519-823-9734
ironwoodanvil@hotmail.com
www.guelpharts.ca/graemesheffield
Graeme is a self-trained artisan blacksmith who utilizes traditional
and contemporary blacksmithing techniques to forge objects of lasting
beauty. Graeme enjoys taking the otherwise cold, lifeless medium of steel,
and manipulating it in ways that allow people to appreciate its flexibility,
strength and limitations at the same time.
“ Most of society can only imagine what it must be like to experience
the passing of the human spirit from this world to the afterworld. It
is fitting that the survivors help the deceased as much as themselves
on the next part of the journey, and honour the departed in ways that
reflect their past life on Earth. Grave goods are to me, a way of cherishing
the deceased, and holding a reverence for life and the human spirit.”
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'Lifted Spirits'
Forged mild steel
$500
The funerary urn can take many shapes and forms. The idea behind
this particular urn was to not only encapsulate the physical remains
of the person, but to “lift” their spirits up and present
them to the Creator.
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'Memorial'
Forged mild steel
$750
Burning candles to light the spirit’s way is important for
the souls of the living and the dead.
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'Sanctuary'
forged mild steel
$3700
I have paid my respects to various deceased members of family and
friends over the last few years while they laid in waiting at funeral
services. This time was very private to me. While I realize that
others respected my “space” that I need to pay my final
respects, I remember wishing to have been in solitude with the deceased
to truly pass on some of my thoughts, uninterrupted.
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