A previous post on this blog centers around a trip several of us Green Meadows gardeners made this week to Carlos Montano's garden art studio in Fairburn GA. When I first visited his studio several months ago, an idea haunted me that I'd seen similar pieces somewhere before ... but where? After rolling through my mental rolodex, an Aha! idea struck me that there were faces at an Atlanta Botanical Garden pool very, very similar to what I was seeing at Carlos'. I was right! Carlos explained that the mural and faces were Christine Sibley's art. He was connected to her as a manager in Christine Sibley's own studio. He knew just which faces at the Bot Garden pool that I was asking about. In fact, he had been commissioned by the Garden to 'fix' the deteriorating pieces as he had the molds Christine had used to make the originals.So I visited the Atlanta Botannical Garden the day before a second visit to Carlos' yesterday. The pieces had been restored and looked wonderfully original! The link below provides photos of Carlos as well as other artists who have reproduced Sibley's art.
http://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/living/0424sibley/
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