ZOOM | Fall/Winter 2019

ART
WORDS | NATALIE FINDLAY
IMAGES | CINDY CANTELON AND CHELSEA BISCHOFF
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CINDY CANTELON
the art of cindy cantelon
unshine Coast is the muse for Cindy Cantelon, owner/artist of Earthly Creature Designs. She has lived on the Coast for over twenty
years, while creating art and jewelry for almost forty. Cindy’s design inspirations come from the beautiful wild flora and fauna that the
Coast provides. In her collection you’ll find many local critters living in the Pacific Northwest coastal rain forest: birds, turtles, snakes,
frogs, newts, bees, flowers, trees, and more.
Cindy studies and sketches her subjects before she begins a new sculpture. She uses the method of “lost-wax” casting to create her
original sculpture designs, working the wax as if it was paint, using hot tools to move the wax and create texture and form. Then an
exact duplicate is created in bronze, silver, or gold, which is used to cast a silicone rubber mold of the original sculpture. She then
Screates wax replicas before moving on to the final casting of the sculpture.
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