Fancy Prance
This is Fancy Prance. She is a medium-sized horse made from lots of different scrap metal that I collect in my travels and hunts. She is 39 1/2″ x 50″ x 12 1/2″ and she weights 65 lbs. Her base is 10 1/2″ x 34 1/4″. She is currently between galleries so if you are interested, I can sent you more photos for a better look. Just text me at 402-881-9714 or email me at terijune@yahoo.com. Thanks for visiting my website!
Solomon Owl - SOLD
Solomon Owl is SOLD but I will be delivering several similar owls in similar sizes and small to Clements Noyes Art Gallery in the months of February. If you have questions or would like to see more photos, just text me at 402-881-9714 or email me at terijune@yahoo.com. Thanks for visiting my website!
Nessie - $345 Sale $225
Nessie has finally come out of hiding. And how fancy does she look? She’s sporting the latest in aquatic headwear, the “fireworks starfish hat” and her tail, it is just so versatile, it can hold those lovely photose of your kids and grandkids down by the Loch, I mean beach! Haha, but really isn’t she just divine? Her neck was a flower vase stuff full of dried roses, still pale-pink and slightly sweet smelling. I knew I had to use it to make a creature with a long beautiful neck. And here she is. Oh, yeah, she is 29 1/2″ tall by 29″ long by 12″ wide and she weighs 15 lbs. If you are interested just text me at 402-881-9714 or email me at terijune@yahoo.com.
Spirit - SOLD
Spirit is a lovely Welsh pony, looking wistfully from her stall door, wondering when someone is going to take her for a ride. 44″ x 24″ x 1 1/2″ in size. She weighs 15lbs. The doors are made from two store shelves, that started out gray with some rusty spots, to which I added touches of red with a dry brush and sanded everything till it looked very worn. I used several candle holder parts in her head along with a bicycle freewheel ring, a cement spacer, ball bearing, two trowels for ears and a hand scythe blade. Her neck contains half of a horse bit, a pair of weird pliers, a farm machinery cog and other parts, and “S” wrench and a piece of decorative scrap metal.
Teri Martens and a commissioned piece, “The Story.”
About Teri
Martens is a Midwesterner gifted with a strong mechanical ability. She was born in the city, but spent lots of time on her grandparents’ farm growing up. In her early twenties, Martens was involved in a start up bicycle business, but rather than working in sales or doing the books, she became a mechanic, building racing wheels and repairing bicycles. Over the years Martens got her bachelor’s degree in communication, had a child and worked for a newspaper and for various large corporations in advertising. In 2009 her husband signed her up for a welding class at a local community college. She excelled in the class and a metal sculptor was born. In 2013 Martens did her first large exhibition, a RAW event which started a series of other shows and exhibits and eventually gallery representation.
Martens works almost exclusively in steel, either new or scrap and many sculptures are a combination of welded and assemblage pieces. She enjoys animal themes — owls, foxes, birds, fish, horses, and cats but she has also created many outdoor pieces — trellises, birdbaths, arbors and suns. She has refined her methods and processes for the past 10 years moving from two dimensional work into almost exclusively 3D. She describes her work as mostly problem solving. “I find a piece that I think will work for an owl’s wing, for example, but it may need to be heated and bent or drilled and attached with screws.” So there’s always a problem she must solve before she can make something work.
Martens’ mission in life as well as in her art is simple: Be kind, be useful, be productive. Every day as she enters her studio she is grateful that she has the opportunity to create art that uplifts, surprises and is loved for the way it makes her collectors feel.
Contact Teri
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