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J. Christopher Turnbow

J. Christopher has always exhibited a natural inclination for contemporary sculpture and mix-media expressions. His works have included painting, sculpting, bonsai, carving, and Native American Indian art. He has traveled extensively in the search for, and study of, many art subjects and methods of self-expression. His travels have taken him to Mexico, Montreal-Canada, Paris-France, New York, Taos, Santa Fe, Ruidoso, Maine, San Francisco, Green Bay, and Galveston. J. Christopher Turnbow sculpture works are a culmination of years of personal experiences and study in areas of art, Christianity, philosophy, nature, and humanity. In the studio the creative forces at work emanate from emotion, feeling, thought, and contemplation with transference to eyes, arms, hands, and fingers working on primarily stone. Each sculpture is patterned after a baseline concept relating to either Christianity or secular genre, wherein the work is providing the viewer an impressionist’s slice of reality.

His goal in direct stone sculpting is to find material that will, when crafted, exhibit the natural order of an earthly “self”, and yet allow for the expression of eternal spirituality. He is seeking to convey the reality of imposed limits for the “self” when practicing a purely individualistic philosophy while, in parallel, illustrating the beauty and infinite possibilities with spiritual acceptance or existence in God’s care. Some works present a constructive and positive personification of experiences; others express the complete opposite, but in most work there a balance of each represented within the same physical space.