Kent Ravenscroft, Sculptor

     Currently, I live and sculpt in Washington, DC, in my home studio, October to June.  In the summers, I live in Martha's Vineyard and work at Featherstone. I retired from Psychiatry in 2007, moving to Paris for 10 years with my wife, Patti.  I discovered sculpting there in 2011. 

     I worked in Paris under the expert eye of sculptor Marie La Varande (to the right with me) in her unique studio, Atelier Marie La Varande.  As a psychoanalyst, I was restrained from touching my patients, but when sculpting I can shape my clay with passion by hand.  As a physician I was lucky enough to have done human dissection, like the old masters, giving me the gift of understanding underlying anatomy, and how it reflects inner emotions and thoughts on the bodily surface as it plays out in face and form. 

     The world and art have moved into modern expression, but I prefer classical figurative and representational work.  Captivated and humbled by famous sculptors in the D'Orsay, the Louvre, the Belmondo, the Bourdelle and the Rodin Museums, I am constantly inspired by their amazing work.  Back in Marie's Atelier, I was surrounded by her remarkable sculpture collection and her own superb work in clay and wood there as models to inspire our own work.  During Paris summers (2011-2017), I also sculpted in Fanghetto, our Italian Alps-Maritime hideaway, and now in Martha's Vineyard.  But by fall for those 10 years, I always welcomed coming back to Marie's Studio. I dedicate this website to her (upper right corner).  Currently, here in the DC area, I am discovering colleagues in the Art League at the Torpedo Factory, the Washington Sculptors Group, and the Washington Studio School.

     As depicted on my home page, I enjoy creating a fired clay sculpture, then making a mold with Vanina (to the left), and then using the mold to make a marble resine (with Vincent to the right) or a bronze by the lost wax method.  The red hot bronze is poured into the mold, the shiny bronze cast is burnished smooth, and then, using a blowtorch various acid patinés or colors are created.  Finally comes the exciting moment of truth, daring to exhibit the finished bronze at a shows in Paris.  By French law, only 10 numbered Bronze copies (1/10, 2/10, 3/10, etc) can be made from each original.  Making molds and bronzes is expensive.  For Dreamer, as an example, the cost is around $1,500.  I use the Fonderie Chapon in Paris and the New Arts Foundry in Washington for making my bronzes.

    Anyone interested in my sculptures can email (kent.ravenscroft@gmail.com) or call me (202-431-0812).  

                     Ravenscroft Exhibitions

                 Yale Art Show, New Haven, June, 2012

                  Exhibition, Galerie Causans, Paris, 3/31-4/14, 2014

                  Art Show, American Cathedral of Paris, 4/11-5, 2014

                  Art Show, Paris Alumni Network, 5/13-25, 2014

                  Boscobel Gallery, TPR Exhibition, Garrison, NY,  8/2, 2015

                  Exhibition, Galerie Causans, 5/13-2l, 2016

                  Harvard Art Show, Boston, MA  6/2, 20016

                  All Island Art Show, Martha’s Vineyard, 8/6-2018

                  Westchester Artists, Washington, 9/16, 2018