Claustro

CLAUSTRO was born to simply represent the collaboration and love shared by: sculptor and artist ; husband and wife; Stuart Leggett and Carol Currie. Our artistic collaborations generally start out as a sketch taken from some inspirationally breathtaking and generally backbreaking backcountry yomp. We have travelled internationally and found artistic inspiration far and abroad, but honestly we’re really quite partial to our home waters of Georgian Bay. Back in our Midland studios, Stuart can literally spend weeks and weeks recuperating and developing each exceptionally technical stress relieved solid wood panel onto which he sculpts a bas relief interpretation of his experience. Carol then spends many more days conjoining her experience to the sculpture through a medium which can best be described as contemporary realist painting. The result is truly more than the sum of the parts and is quite simply breathtaking! It is these collaborations which we have coined as “Sculpted Paintings” – a tactile living painting that invites an interactive and intimate experience with the observer.