Artist's Statement

Richard Cleaver's sculptures are encrusted with detail, compact in design and made complete with concealed compartments and secret drawers which serve as hiding places for multiple meanings. Many of his sculptures depict imaginary lives with narratives loosely based on the artist's musings, daydreams, and occasionally on historic fact. These images integrate unique ceramic sculptural elements, wood, fresh water pearls, semiprecious stones, gold leaf, and oil paint.

"My recent work is based on narratives drawn from personal and historical events that are overlapped with subconscious images." - Richard Cleaver

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