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After two and half years, he moved to Canada and his interest in sculpture deepened into a passion not to be ignored. He became a self taught sculptor, photographer, designer, and home builder. The latter was a means of supporting himself in the early years until he was able to turn professional. After 28 years in Vancouver, he relocated to Northern California in 2001 and currently lives and works on a peaceful and secluded 10 acres in the foothills of the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.


Early on, his interest was mainly the figure and sculptural portraiture, however by way of a commission in 1986, he was introduced to the subject of wildlife. This became the focus of his work for the next 12 years, producing an impressive array of works such as Wings of Prey and Megaptera in granite, Aspen and Freedom in bronze and combination works such as La Gardienne in the late 90’s. This last work in wood and bronze, along with a portrait of an African American woman, titled Jade Princess, foreshadowed an expansion of his style into what he calls ‘fusion’ pieces, a seamless integration of different media some ten years later, which became his trademark, as he entered the world of jade.


Actually, his first ever jade project was to become the largest jade statue of Quan Im, (the Goddess of Mercy) in the early 90’s, for a Buddhist Monastery in the outskirt of Bangkok. After 3 months of working in Thailand on the 7’ tall figure, the Abbot of the temple reneged on their agreement, and he never completed the statue. It took another


12 years before he returned to creating with jade, but this time, without being fully aware of it at the beginning, his focus became the expression of jade’s many healing and spiritual properties, as jade became ‘his true’ medium.


Georg recalls an experience while looking for good quality jade roughs to buy at Jade West’s outdoor yard in Surrey: a small badly fractured piece half burred in the mud, a shard jade carvers would never look at, let alone work with, called out to him, “please take me with you, I am also beautiful”. Combining it with bronze, it became his first jade sculpture, aptly titled Heart2Heart. He learned later that jade is given by lovers as a statement of their love and devotion to each other.


Jade is said to encourage self-realization, to help us recognize ourselves as spiritual beings, and in the last stages of polishing the jade component of his next piece, Georg experienced a profound insight relating to the progression of the many sculptural media he worked with over the years, as a reflection of his own spiritual journey. He started with wood, his first material, representing an impressionable sensitive young man, then moved on to soft stone like alabaster and soapstone, then harder stones like serpentine and marble, and finally bronze and granite, eventually arriving to jade - the hardest sculptural medium, yet the ‘softest’ when polished and most ‘transparent’ of them all. He titled it Shibumi and considers it a representation of the inherent drive in all beings to experience harmony on both


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