| I have been working with and for various cultural institutions my entire career.
In 1982, I began sculpting trees and naturalistic landforms.
My personal goal has always been to recreate nature as well as possible, and to
bring the essence of life into all exhibits to inspire learning and understanding.
|
| In 2003 Jonquil sculpted dioramas for the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Features include Pickle weed mud flats, tide pools and a riparian stream. The murals and model birds were provided by other artists.
Left, surface view. Right, underwater view.
|
|

| Artificial Rock work representing the Brooks Range in Alaska is one of the dioramas sculpted by Jonquil in 2003.
|
|

Hand sculpted Birch tree for a Boreal Exhibit
.
.
|
|
| Hand sculpted tree, land-forms and snow in a Boreal Forest Exhibit |
|

|
This interpretive exhibit, built in
2000 at the Oregon Zoo, recreates
a shell midden. Commonly found on the Central Coast of Oregon, all
shell middens are protected today and provide evidence of the
native cultural history in the area.
|
| In 2001 I designed and built the exhibits for
the Baby Room in the Portland Children's Museum, CM2.
These included furniture and play structures inspired by trees and the forest. |
|
|
| Exhibits completed for the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in
September 2002, include a crawl-through Discovery Riverbank and a diving California
Sealion. |
|
| The
Pinna or outer ear, a sculpture for OMSI. This is
part of an exhibit entitled "Dangerous Decibels". |
|
|

|
On site fabrication is reserved for environments which are
either too large
or too complex to build in the studio. This is work under
construction at Central Park Zoo in 1987.
Photograph:
Jan Staller
|
|

This
CM2 Baby Room play structure features crawl-through tree roots and movable fleece river rocks.
P
|
|
|

This
exhibit for the San Diego Zoo, is the third in a series
of habitats I sculpted for the Reptile House.
A
|
|

A sculpted cross-section of
"Who Lives in the Mud Flats" at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge was built in 1999.
.. |
|
 |

Copyright © 2002, Jonquil
LeMaster.
All rights reserved.
|
|
|