Robin antar biography

4. What is your process like, and how do you begin?

The sculpting process is very physical, with diamond blades and high-powered air hammers to cut and chisel the stone. For larger pieces, I travel to the Marble Institute of Colorado every year for the MARBLE/Marble Symposium where I have access to an outdoor studio and assistants with machinery to help me move large blocks of stone as I work.

The sanding process is very labor-intensive and done by hand, using multiple diamond grits to achieve an exceptionally smooth finish. Although it’s hard work, the result is a work of art in stone that is alive.

Robin antar biography

At the beginning of my career, I developed a special process of tinting the stone which I first used in my visual series, expressing my unbalanced vision, then moved the technique to my realism series. It is really cool to be able to control the mood of a piece with tints of color on certain stone - porous stones like limestone work best.

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