Oct 27, 2014
Heather Mclarty has spent the last 20 plus years establishing
herself as a well-known artist and craftsperson. Her work has been selected for
public parks and national art exhibitions. Heather’s blacksmith shop is in a
tipi in Los Angeles, CA. She is also very accomplished
with the repousse and high relief chasing techniques, which she
teaches in classes across the country. She continues to explore the
endless ways to transform hard, industrial materials into lively,
organic pieces of sculpture and functional art.
After
learning steel fabrication as a props artisan in the theater
industry she began working backwards technologically. Heather uses
a mixture of modern and ancient methods to create her
pieces.
She
has a special affinity for sheet work, particularly repousse and
high relief chasing. In 2001 she won a CBA grant to study high
relief chasing with Kirsten Skiles at the Campbell Folk
School.
After
winning a Bedayn grant in 2005 she spent several transformative
weeks in the Czech
Republic and studied Louis XVI ornament and tooling from
the master smith Alfred Habermann.
In
May of 2010 I traveled to Ivano-Frankivsk to participate and
exhibit in the Union
of Ukrainian Blacksmiths Festival with blacksmiths from
around the globe.
Heather’s links:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/hamclarty?fref=ts
Steel Crazy Website: http://www.steelcrazy.biz/steelcrazy/steelcrazy.html
Adams Forge Website: http://www.adamsforge.org/Adams_Forge/WELCOME.html
Heather Youtube Repousse
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRSrB_LP5rM
Heather’s video about the Occidental
College gate she made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszVY2F6K-4
What We Talked About:
· Her blacksmithing and repousse teaching and how
she started
· Her
business model and how she prices her work…..very interesting
· How
she keeps herself physically fit
· Glass
and Steel - together
· A
very impressive #3 Chambersberg power hammer at Adams Forge from
the LA Fire Department, how much did they pay for
it??????
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