Temple Arts Festival

Maurice Blik was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands and moved to England after WWII. Blik has had an extensive career in art education teaching at all levels from elementary to postgraduate. In the 1980s he began to develop his sculpture and in 1991 stopped teaching to work full time on his sculpture. In 1996 he was elected President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Blik works in the UK and USA where he was awarded residency by the US government as “a person of extraordinary artistic ability”.

MEDIUMS: Sculpture: Bronze

PRICE RANGE OF EXHIBIT ART: $ 4,500 to $21,000

ARTIST STATEMENT:

People are familiar with my haunting figurative bronzes. Heroic, monumental or tiny in size, these sculptures speak of hope, freedom and new life.

Now, a new and consequently unfamiliar direction has developed. Small colorful pieces in a variety of materials, each one unique. Still figurative, these pieces are essays in love, lust and longing.

I am showing two of these works, “White Angel” and “Rainstorm”. As Holden Luntz put it, “Gee Maurice, they are little poems”. What a lovely sentiment! .

EXHIBITIONS:

He has exhibited more than 16 times in England including solo shows in the Ben-Uri and Alwin Galleries and as invited artist at the Royal Academy in London. He has shown at the Pier Walk in Chicago, the Cavalier Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut, the Blains Fine Art London Solo Show and the Irving Gallery in Pam Beach, Fla.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

He is included in numerous corporate collections including J.P. Morgan Investment Bank and Glaxo Smith Kline HQ in London and Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville.

Artwork for Sale
at Festival
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