Tonight is the opening reception for the exhibit Moore Inspired at the Botanic Gardens in Denver. My ceramic sculpture Reclining Mother was accepted into this juried exhibit through August 1, which displays Colorado artists whose works were inspired by Henry Moore.

© 1968 Linda C. Everson

Tonight is the opening reception for the exhibit Moore Inspired at the Botanic Gardens in Denver. My ceramic sculpture Reclining Mother was accepted into this juried exhibit through August 1, which displays Colorado artists whose works were inspired by Henry Moore. 

© 1968 Linda C. Everson

Henry Moore’s wonderful sculptures are on display in the Botanic Gardens until January 31, 2010.

Henry Moore’s use of organic forms in his Reclining Figures influenced my creation of Reclining Mother while doing ceramics in college. I was attracted to the primitive and archaic attributes in his forms and surface. Although my sculpture is ceramic, my earthy and reticulating glazes were influenced by Moore’s use of surface on wood and rock.

 The ‘hollow’ or negative spaces in Henry Moore’s figures were significant in my own sculpture as well. These enclosures lead the eye back into the embryonic figure. Although reclining, my ceramic figure has movement. My sculpture is small in comparison to Moore’s monumental figures, but it still is a non-representational ‘mother earth’. Moore’s sculptures were tied to the earth as well.

See more information on Henry Moore lectures and tours at the Botanic Gardens.