Hoselton sculptures to grace Millennium Garden
Posted By VALERIE MACDONALD VMACDONALD@NORTHUMBERLANDTODAY.COM
Posted 2 months ago
Two life-sized sculptures of the late local artist, Carl Hoselton, have taken up residence in the Five Corners Millennium Garden created by the Cobourg Horticultural Society in Cobourg.
While they were installed this past weekend, the official unveiling of Virgin and Virgin and Child will take place next week when their former owners, Margaret and Murray Dillon, return from their trip to Asia, says Horticultural Society president Sarah Holland. Cobourg Mayor Peter Delanty will do the honours.
This is the first time the works will be in a public space; previously they graced Hoselton's own gardens at Tangmere House at 427 King St. W., Holland said this week in an interview with Northumberland Today.
The Dillons are the second owners of the property since Hoselton lived there and when they sold the home this this past summer, they donated the sculptures to the Cobourg Horticultural Society which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, she said. The works were stored temporarily by Cobourg's parks department then foundations were laid and the installation in the flower garden at the corner of William, King and Ontario streets took place Sunday.
"It was an unexpected gift," Holland said of the late artist's sculptures. "They are free form and abstract... very lovely."
Hoselton co-founded Hoselton Studios in Colborne with his brother Gordon, and the aluminum and marble figures are in public and private collections around the world.
His daughter, Beth, an artist in her own right, will attend the 11 a. m. ceremony on Nov 17.
A jeweler by trade, Carl Hoselton studied sculpture in New York in the 1950s, and in the 1960s the Art Gallery of Ontario held a solo exhibition of his work comprised of "large sculptures, made out of the wooden moulds used to make the components of the lift locks," states a media release about the man. He sculpted in wood, marble, bronze, clay and concrete.
"He was a pioneer in bringing the love of sculpture to the greater public," the media release states.
