Jerry Joslin
SCULPTURE STROLL FEATURE
11. Springtime
by Jerry Joslin
Springtime is a graceful and uplifting bronze sculpture by artist Jerry Joslin, celebrating renewal, beauty, and the lightness of the season. The figure of a young woman appears to rise effortlessly from a blooming cascade of flowers, her pose full of motion and youthful joy. Her dress gently lifts as if caught by a warm breeze, revealing delicate blossoms gathered in its hem. With her head tilted upward and a serene expression, she captures a moment of pure, hopeful awakening. Joslin’s soft color patinas and fluid lines bring warmth and life to the piece, making Springtime a poetic tribute to nature’s rebirth and the timeless optimism it inspires.
About the Artist
Jerry Joslin is a modern master of representational figurative sculpture. It is his chosen discipline because it offers the greatest challenge "...to express my deepest feelings, intuition, inspiration and perception, all in terms that others can understand and appreciate... The human figure is undeniably the touchstone to art in any era."
His sculpture is imbued with a lyrical romance that carries the traditions of the old European masters onward into the new millennia with a fresh contemporary narrative. Look closely at Joslin's work and you see more than figurative interplay with precise execution. Implicit in each sculpture is a personal communication that exposes the intellect of this artist. His designs exude the tension and release that animate his composition.
John Guernsey, an Oregon journalist described Joslin as "...a man who dreams many dreams and then makes them come true."
Born in Portland, Oregon in 1942, graduated from Portland State College in 1966, Joslin spent a restless decade studying various art forms while serving as Captain aboard the U.S.G.S. research vessel Polaris, then cruised throughout the South Pacific on his own sailboat and lived with the natives in the Tuamotos and Marquesas.
In 1979 Joslin was riveted by the passion that would shape his future. He became a student of sculpture. Working in stone, wax, and clay, he studied throughout the length and breadth of Europe and with characteristic self-discipline became the master sculptor he is today. Jerry Joslin owes no allegiance to any school but has drunk deep from life's experience and masterfully sculpts his unique personal images into immutable statements.
Attesting to his pre-eminence among contemporary figurative sculptors, Joslin's impressive body of work, created over the last quarter century, is represented in many museum, public and private collections around the world.