 BACKGROUND
James Hewes comes to art with a background in drafting, architecture and many years in construction, doing a considerable amount of concrete form work on new high rises. He assisted in setting up two fine art bronze foundries: one in Salt Lake City doing casting for the Boston Museum, and one in Sonoma, CA.
He studied traditional sculpture techniques at the University of Utah with the artist Carravaglia. Later, he had the opportunity to study with the avant garde artist Marisol at Montana State University in Bozeman.
He finished his undergraduate degree at the California College of Arts and Crafts (Oakland, CA), studying glass with Marvin Lipovsky,and ceramics with Viola Frey, Dennis Gallagher, and Art Nelson.
James began doing clay works in Sonoma while working in the bronze foundry. Upon moving to San Francisco in 1981, he continued working in clay at Fort Mason, and began developing his figure sculpture techniques. In 1982, he moved to the Goodman Building, a historic residential hotel in San Francisco, where he began the models for the geometric sculpture which evolved into the Tamarack Talisman twenty years later.
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