Rich Sheltren, pictured, and Robin
live and work in Middletown, California. If you stay on Highway
29, through Napa Valley, past Calistoga, you'll arrive there.
If you kept going about as long as it took to come from Calistoga,
you'll get to Clear Lake. It would be my guess, then, that
Middletown is called that because it is, between Calistoga
and Clear Lake.
Most often, you find a
piece of art that you like and then meet the artist who you find you like too.
We came to this art and artist in a different way. We already knew the artists,
for longer than we care to say, and discovered, in their barn, this hidden
treasure.
Both Rich and Robin
Sheltren are Middletown elementary school teachers by day, metal sculptures by
weekend. They have combined not only indigenous designs but also use local
materials, no longer serviceable for its original purpose. They scour the wine
country for reclaimable plow disks, metal drums (they use the tops) and other
metal found objects. They cut, bend and burnish the material to fashion it into
metal replications of Native American petroglyphs, drawings and natural
objects.
You'll need to picture
yourself on a winding, old asphalt road without lines or sidewalks, when you
happen upon an outdoor gallery of this sculpture along a crushed stone path
that leads to the Sheltren's barn workshop. Browse, shop, enjoy.
Staked items for
the Garden
These unique
sculptural pieces are created on 3/8" flat steel, oxidized and approximately 8"
x 10" in size. Shipping and handling is $6.00 added to the prices
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Larger pieces
(most are staked)
These
sculptural pieces are created on various forms of oxidized steel. Shipping and
handling is $8.00 added to the prices below.
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