Andrea Broyles

Sculpture has always come naturally to me. I have been building large abstract figurative ceramic sculptures for 40 years. Concurrently I depict similar imagery on canvas. My interest is the same - focusing on textures, layers and multi-dimensional meanings. Although the themes may change over time, the essence of my work has a consistency – it is figurative. It reflects my interests on both a basic compositional and an aesthetic level. I use the medium chosen and the figural subject matter as a vehicle to express the spectrum of the human condition: love, fear, death, pain, desire, loneliness. Humans are naturally drawn to the figure and I use this instinctual interest in seeing variations of the human body to urge the viewer to think beyond surface, color and line to plumb deeper meaning.