RUTH JAMESON

RUTH JAMESON BIOGRAPHY

Born in Riverside CA, she is a Third Generation Californian. Jameson’s  early childhood  years were enchanted by her father’s workshop in which he made wondrous things from wood. He was a master craftsman and a contractor in the building trades as his father before him.

Small wooden pieces became the elements she constructed into magical small sculptures she read about in her fairy tale books. These small works became her inner way to communicate with the world around her.

Her education was completed in 1975 after her children were in school.  As a sixth grade teacher, she taught her students emphasizing the arts in all the subjects, even in classes of math.

Whittier College 1975 BA with majors in Art, Psychology, and Education.

Her early training in the elements of sculpture making was under the guidance of master acrylic sculptor Bijan Bahar. He taught her how to cast in resin, and the intricacies of mold making.  Then she”found” bronze.

Artist Statement

“A lasting love affair with the images of Henry Moore, and Rodin were inspiring to Me. Both sculptors had their own unique genre, and both were true unto their inner drummer.

Finding Bronze was my doorway to the visions always there in my heart. The strength of bronze gave birth to forms which could stand on a small self base. The ability of bronze to rise above and be true was the only media in which I could realize my visions.  Movement in my forms spring from the Ocean. The Sea is the underlying web that holds this world of desires together, and the bronze makes it possible”.

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