"The past twenty-five year, I’ve been a professional sculptor in the toy and collectible industries, but just a skilled technician. In the past few years I’ve been turning my interest to sculpting my own western bronze figures of working dogs and their partners, and for the most part have been satisfied with the results, and actually, I was pleased with the piece that I took to the workshop. But being “satisfied” or “pleased” aren’t good enough – not for us, not for our collectors, and neither are subject and technique. Scott drew considerably more out of both my sculpture and myself than I ever expected; his thoughts and visions summed up in short sentences or single words will be what will have the impact on my future works, and had I not even touched clay all week, it still would have been a success and more than worth my time and expense to attend." - James Rogers, California / July 2009
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