yourbodyasart

The human form. Beauty, grace, fluid line leading to fluid line. Sensuous, emotive, distant closeness surrounding all of us like a circle. We cover it, yet work diligently to make it attractive. We worship it, but in silence, in private, afraid of our thoughts should they show on the outside.

The human figure is the most amazing of the creator’s works. I capture this awesome inspiring movement of flesh and bone in a way that no photograph can. In the world of three dimensions, light and shadow enhance and dance and play off the surface; you can walk around and appreciate a new aspect – a new sigh – with every angle. It is beauty in captured motion, more than a still frame; depth, texture, contrast.

My journey is to create works of art from this most amazing of living things.

Seven years ago I found myself in Strasbourg, France, waiting to bury my father.  The night before the funeral, at my Aunt’s home, I picked up a book on sculpture by Auguste Rodin; I was wholly moved. I began to explore art, embrace the French countryside and culture, and take on my birth-name (Jean-Paul) as my artist eponymous. 

I have had formal training in figurative sculpture, pastels, and life drawing through the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In May 2005, my very first piece, “Somatique Ascension,” sold at a fundraising auction in Boulder, Colorado.  Inspired by this immediate acknowledgement of the art of Lifecasting, I decided to devote my free time to practicing this form of figurative sculpture.


My creative life  appears to be in a state of chaos. It is from this chaos that the joy of a finished piece emerging gives me the most pleasure. I really love Lifecasting as a method of representing the human form as it has so many qualities: the realism of photography, the dimensional nature of sculpture, and the abstract derived from shape, finish, and setting.

Thanks for stopping by!

Jean-Paul