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About the Artist |
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photos: Lara Sanchez
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Greg Robertson phone 505-670-9965 Greg was born in Albuquerque and has loved New Mexico through four generations. He received a BFA in Technical Theatre and Design from Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, and after stage management work in London, he came to Santa Fe to work for Shakespeare in Santa Fe. During his five years with Shakespeare, he worked for Captain Marble, a stone fabrication shop in Santa Fe. There he discovered the beautiful colors that granite had to offer, and his artistic eye took over. Greg started making small table fountains in his spare time, along with clocks, boxes and inlay artwork. This was the foundation of Rock Steady Designs, and today Greg builds water walls, sculpted water features and dry sculptures, almost always out of Granite. Granite is amazing stone. It comes from all over the world. It is much harder than limestone or marble, and almost any color can be found. It is the color that makes granite so exciting to work with. Greg often will pick the color of a stone before he starts to design a piece. Oftentimes there are spectacular swirls and speckles that make a particular stone unique. If he can make a stone artistically stand on its own, he will, but Greg also likes to explore the contrast between polish and rough, flat and carved, and mixing different stones in one piece. Since this work began in a countertop fabrication shop, most of the pieces used are remnants; scrap pieces found in the stone yards. As opposed to drilling blocks of stone, Greg will laminate pieces together to get a certain thickness. This also allows for very small detail pieces, only ¾ of an inch thick, which would otherwise have to be carved down. He would like to play with blocks of stone in the future, but there is so much to be recycled, and that in turn helps to create new ideas. Greg lives in Santa Fe after several years of living and working in pecos, New mexico.
Resume Education/Occupation: 1991-1996 Eastern New Mexico University, Portales Showcases, Galleries and Events, past and present: -Santa Fe Southside Library, Sculpture installation, Santa Fe Loaned Art Program, 2007- present |