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James Hendricks
James Hendricks is a professional artist who focuses on metal sculptures and oil paintings. In the past thirty years he has presented his art in many galleries and art shows. He has designed public art for projects in San Antonio, TX, Goodyear, AZ, Ft. Sam Houston (San Antonio, TX) and has produced more than sixty commissions in the past decade. He was selected as artist of the year in 2017, by the San Antonio Art League and Museum. This culminated in a one-man show of 65 pieces of his sculptures and paintings. James has also worked as an illustrator for over 30 years, creating technical and scientific illustrations. He has worked for Pearson Publications, San Antonio Express News (winning an Associated Press award in 2000), Fairchild Aircraft… doing thousands of science related illustrations for Pearson Publishing, Globe Book Company and Harcourt Brace Press.
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Artist Statement of Work
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My artwork covers a wide range of mediums including; painting, integrated stone sculpture, blacksmith steel, cast bronze, printing and traditional welding. I am inspired by nature which I believe is perfection. My sculptures are inspired by the movement and forms you see in nature, attention is given to all details and are an important element of my sculpture. I bridge together echoes of nature, which all mankind holds in his subconscious, and fuse this with what we know about the industrial world in which we live.
My goal is to touch someone's emotions, to have them feel what I might feel. As an artist, from my point of view, I do not have a choice. I have to produce art. It is my job to document the effects of this earthly existence on the human race: be it a bench to be used for public art or a painting or a sculpture.
