Monday, March 23, 2009

Sam Cliffton

Artist Statement

I was born in Tucson, AZ in 1950 and spent my formative years in London, where I enjoyed photography, drawing and painting and had a great art teacher. I received a degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute in 1972 and have lived and worked in Rappahannock County since 1973.

Most of this time I have designed and built custom homes and other structures. My art is about creating stored energy primarily with tensile constructions and I really enjoy working with lights, fabric, wire, etc. to create structural tensions. Basically I like imagining things and then figuring out how to make them.

I guess that, so far, building houses is the only way I’ve been able to do that and make a living in Rappahannock County.
scliffton@wildblue.net

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