Submitted by the San Juan Islands Sculpture Park

San Juan Islands Sculpture Park is proud to welcome “Mother and Child,” a new bronze sculpture by artist Lucy Congdon-Hanson. The abstract figurative work, representing two figures, now stands among the Park’s meadows, trees, and shoreline views.

Lucy’s celebrated Abstract Figurative series, shown at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and other venues, is a collection of sculptures made of wood and steel. Mother and Child is a version created for the outdoors. To maintain the wood element theme, the artist built the original form in plywood, sandblasted the surface to raise the woodgrain, and cast the piece in bronze using the ancient lost-wax method. Only two editions of the sculpture exist; one is in a private collection in Sonoma, California, and the piece now on San Juan Island is the final edition.

Lucy earned her Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the California College of the Arts in 1995. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including a permanent installation at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Her 14-foot-tall stainless steel fork, Serve, is currently installed at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, California. To see more of Lucy’s art, visit www.ilovelucyart.com.

As autumn arrives on San Juan Island, the Sculpture Park offers visitors the chance to see Mother and Child set against meadows and woodlands shifting into fall, a reminder of how art and nature move together through the seasons.