Jim Harman is the 3-Dimensional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of November 2019. He is an award-winning artist and bronze sculptor based in Oregon, USA.

Jim’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of November 2019. The gallery will promote Jim and his work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 3,500+ buyers, collectors, galleries and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Jim’s Biography and Artist Statement below as he describes his history and inspiration in his own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see his exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Jim’s work, please visit his website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Jim’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Jim and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Artist Biography

Jim grew up in southern California. He graduated from Long Beach State College, Long Beach, California, in 1967 with a BA in art. Through the 70’s, Jim continued to paint. During that time, he started cutting cabochon stones. A cabochon has a flat back and a domed top. Most often, agates and jaspers are cabochon cuts. With a large collection of cabochons, it was time, for Jim, to learn how to make jewelry. With the help from other jewelers, the learning experience began.

In the early 80’s, Jim took a number of classes at the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco. For 30 years, Jim worked in the jewelry trade. Part of the process of creating custom jewelry included carving wax models to be cast by the lost wax casting process. The creation of wax models for jewelry and bronze sculpture are much the same. The transition, for Jim, was seem less. As a lapidary artist, Jim’s bronze pieces showcase his stones.

Artist Statement

I have two bodies of work. In my earlier work, the Primordial Recollections series, I used animal bones as the foundation for my bronze pieces. As bones have a sculptural quality on their own, I gave them a new identity. Not just bones. While these pieces are highly modified, they offer an opportunity to show case stones that I have cut. My current focus is on bowls and vases. Most often, a vase has one hole and is the same on all sides. Expanding on that concept, I am making vases that have two sides. Each side has a different look. Some of my vases have multiple holes. Typically, my vases are about two inches thick, front to back. If you tire of looking at one side, you can turn it around. Two different looks in one vase.

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