Peter Coates

The Perfect Sculptor’s Bench

Tired of making do with a woodworker’s workbench, I’ve spent a good part of my mandated Covid-19 holiday reworking an ancient design for a carpenter’s bench as a sculpture workbench. It’s a prototype, but I love the result so far. I’ve learned so much I’m thinking of making something similar specifically for stone. It’s beenContinue reading “The Perfect Sculptor’s Bench”

Creds

By way of establishing credibility, here’s a brief bio. I moved to New York to be an artist in January of 1980 after working in the sculpture department of the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC for several years. This was long before the Corcoran became part of a mega-university. I wasn’t on theContinue reading “Creds”