Mike Greenfield

I was born in Marion Ohio to an Air Force family and spent much of my youth moving around the country about every two year. I ended up in California where I started studying art. After exploring various forms of art and moving to Arizona I started on a new art path by sculpting stone and combining it with bronze. This has been the most difficult artwork I've done. Working with 30, 100, 500 pounds stones that are almost as hard as diamonds requires the use of diamond saws and tools. Sometimes I will have a stone in my studio for a month, turning it, handling it and looking at it from different angles, trying to see what is in the stone. How does the color in the stone run? What is the shape the stone will want to take? Then, after I decide on a shape I must decide what bronze will go with the stone. Will it be a man or women? Will it be passive or aggressive? Will the motion of the piece be in the stone or will the motion be in the bronze or in both? The last thing I must consider is that when turning the wax into bronze it will shrink about 7 percent. I have to make the wax so the finished bronze will still fit the stone. When I finish, I want my piece to draw you in and for you to feel what the subject is feeling. I want ...

While in college I took art appreciation classes along with classes involving the study of the human body such as anatomy and kinesiology. After taking classes from local artists in Burbank, California, I began drawing using pencil and pen and ink. Upon moving to Lake Tahoe, CA I began to study watercolor and combined watercolor with my pen and ink drawings. Later, I began exploring the three dimensional art of sculpting. I took classes at UCLA and enrolled in bronzing classes at Lake Tahoe Community College. It was at LTCC that I learned the entire bronzing process. After moving to Goodyear, Arizona I began taking classes at the Scottsdale Art School. There I had the opportunity to study bronze sculpturing under Cowboy Artists of America, John Coleman and stone carving under another Cowboy Artist of America, Orland Joe.
In Arizona I started on a new path by sculpting stone and combining it with bronze. This has been the most difficult artwork I've done.  Working with 30, 100, 500 pounds stones that are almost as hard as diamonds requires the use of diamond saws and tools. Sometimes I will have a stone in my studio for a month, turning it, handling it and looking at it from different angles, trying to see what is in the ...

ONE MAN SHOW:
Marriott Resort Pinnacle l Point, Az
Southwest Premier Artist
Western Premier Artist
Arts of Estrella

FEATURED ARTIST
Albuquerque Balloon Art Festival
Sonoran Art League’s Out West Art Festival
Premier Southwest Artists’ Casa Grande Art Festival Sedona Fine Art Festival
Thunderbird Fine Art and Wine shows

My art has been in the following galleries:
Navaro Gallery, Sedona, AZ
Mountain Spirits, Prescott, AZ
Gray Leaf Gallery, Prescott, AZ
The Gallery at the Four Seasons Resort, Scottsdale, AZ
The Gallery at the Boulders, Carefree, AZ
Rogoway’s Gallery Turquoise Tortoise , Tubac, AZ
Canyon Road Gallery, Santa Fe, AZ
Wind Rush Gallery, Sedona, AZ
Arroyo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
( I am currently not in any galleries. The problem is that because I do one of a kind sculptures I can not make enough sculptures to do shows and be in galleries.)