Don Anderson
A Welded Metal Sculptor, Master Welder, AWS Certified Welding Inspector, and Welding Educator in the Welding Trades for 45 years. I earned a BFA from the University of Kansas, before relocating to the Pacific Northwest 50 years ago. I have lived in Northwest Washington, nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains for 30 years, with my wife, also an artist, and near our children and grandchildren. Rural living never ceases to inspire.
The abstract imagery I work with in Sculpture is nature based, always seeking the soul of a thought, from sensory responses and observations of energy themes (wind, heat waves, water, clouds) to tangible expressions of feelings, emotions, actions, and human relationships. As a communicator, I am attracted to visual representations of thoughts and expressions, as in the Japanese Kanji I incorporate in some of my work. This is expressly heartfelt in the choice of key Kanji which express enduring thoughts, feelings, and compassion for the loss of a friend or loved one in my unique Funerary, Burial, Cremation “Artesan Urns”.
