Brett Davis

Sculptor
Age of Bronze
1025 Graham Sideroad
905.775.5581
email: email@davis@ageofbronze.ca
web: www.ageofbronze.ca

Biography
Brett Davis was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1957. He graduated with honors from Toronto's Central Technical School Special Fine Art Program in 1981 where he majored in sculpture, and is a member of The Sculptors Society of Canada and The Royal British Society of Sculptors. Brett has created custom and commission based cast bronze sculpture for more than 25 years while working in all facets of non-ferrous metals from welding, fabrication, chasing and fountain design. For 25 years, Brett also has studied and created specialized patina formulas for his own works as well as many Canadian and international artists. He also teaches chemical patination and conducts workshops at local and international art colleges and art foundries. His travels abroad have earned him an international reputation as a bronze artist with numerous public works in Asia, England, USA and Canada.

Artist Statement My newest bronze works are based on the female form, modeled as gestured studies, that replicate the natural textures of earth and quarried stone, combining humanistic life with nature. These studies portray the external beauty of women, revealing the inner sensuality of her spiritual being, giving way to harmonious and rhythmic motion. They are momentary glimpses that capture the response of a reaction, a mood, or feeling, one of profound thought. A depiction of life within the cultures who lived in harmony with the environment projecting a state of incompletion, something that has been abandoned or appear to be in transition of reverting back to nature, or is in a state of creation, emerging from the earth, towards a destination. They delve into the social and physiological aspects of cultural and historical change, an integration into another society, a new country, a new life, reflecting on the past, but merging forward into the unknown and unpredictable future.

Local Public Works