Jeffery Briggs
Sculptor

updated 11.04

updated 09.04

Jeff Briggs received his B.A. from Tufts and his Diploma from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in 1969. His work has been featured in numerous national publications ----- YANKEE MAGAZINE, "WOODWORKING -THE NEW WAVE" by Donna Meilach, FINE WOODWORKING BOOKS ll & lll and INTERIOR DESIGN to name a few. His Art Nouveau style sculptures were featured at The Verbena Gallery in NYC. His wood sculptures are prized by collectors throughout the country.

For the past 18 years he has worked as sculptor and principle designer The Fabricon Carousel Company creating numerous Grand Carousels currently operating in Singapore , Finland , Saudi Arabia , Bolivia and throughout the USA .
Over the past several years Jeffrey has been working on a new collection of sculpted wall reliefs. Thematically, the reliefs explore Jeffrey's thoughts about man's complex and paradoxical relationship to animals.

Jeffrey begins with an idea of one aspect of the man - animal relationship. After looking through his vast collection of historic design archives for inspirational imagery and to jump start his imagination, he begins by sketching out his ideas. He transforms his ideas into full scale, two-dimensional drawings. He designs a sculptural frame to enhance and compliment each drawing. The drawing and frame design are then transferred to a smoothed, flattened bed of exceptionally hard oil based clay, by piercing through the lines of his drawings as they are laid upon the bed of clay. He sculpts the clay into a three dimensional interpretation of his two dimensional design. After getting as much detail and definition as possible in the clay, Jeff makes a rubber mold and casts the relief in plaster. He further refines and defines his forms in the pure white plaster, which is easier to see and captures finer details than the clay. He then makes another rubber mold of the plaster relief and makes a final cast of the sculpture in Forton MG, a polymer modified, exterior grade plaster.