CONTACT

Phoebe Ingram

EXIBITIONS

Arabella Gallery
63A Wharf Street
Pickering Wharf
Salem, MA 01970 978.740.9500

True North Gallery
25 Woodbury Street
South Hamilton, MA 01982 978.468.1962

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Phoebe was born in the U.S although her parents are English. Her father was in the Royal Navy and was posted to the Pentagon for two years. She was brought up and educated in England culminating in a Bachelor of Education degree. She worked as a primary school teacher in the State school system with responsibility for art. She stopped work while raising children but continued her interest in art as a hobby with local classes.

Her art education started more formally with a foundation course at the University of Hertford but was interrupted because of moving to the States. Her interest in sculpture and carving stone, in particular, was further nurtured by courses at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA and later in the DeCordova museum continuing education program and at the Museum of Fine Arts School and the Mass School of Art, both in Boston.

Phoebe’s work is primarily in alabaster but she has worked in marble, calcite, African wonder stone, wood and metal. Her sculptures give a nod to realism in that, as you walk around them, they work from the angle you’re looking at and the piece flows from one part to another and is balanced as a whole. I hope you enjoy looking at my work.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Mother and Child. I have worked on the Mother and Child theme for a few years and it is one that has been explored by a million artists over the centuries but trying to capture the essence of what it means to me in a piece of stone will probably be an endless preoccupation. I am trying to convey the total absorption of mother and child with each other and so create an inward facing tension in thepiece.

After the Bath and the Female Form. This series is a study of the female form and, in particular, how evocative the curve of the back is to conveying introspection and meditation in the figure. The series of paintings by Degas entitled ‘After the Bath’ have provided a strong influence.

Birds and Bears. The elegant shape of the heron is still soaring skyward despite being firmly grounded. In contrast, I love the solid, rounded feel of bears and I have been influenced by Inuit carvings.