I have always had strong artistic interests and have taken countless studio art classes. I love to create works in three dimensions, and have been making sculpture for over thirty years. I have a studio in Sausalito, and have been able to spend an increasing amount of time pursuing this passion. I primarily sculpt abstract forms in wood and stone; I also work in welded steel and cast bronze. Some of my recent work explores the forms and forces related to sails, waves and wind .

I have shown my work at the Man Art exhibition of the 2003 Sausalito Art Festival, Claudia Chapline Gallery in Stinson Beach, Marin Art and Garden Center, Underground Gallery of the Downtown Art Center in San Rafael, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto Art Club, Marin Open Studios, ICB Open Studios and Artists of Issaquah Dock exhibitions. I was commissioned to sculpt a perpetual trophy for the Sausalito Yacht Club and invited to participate in the art auction of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. For the past nine years, I have been a participating artist in the San Francisco Art Institute Auction.

In California, my sculpture is in the collections of Roselyne (Cissie) Swig, Susan and David Coulter, Michelle and Dan Skaff, Sarah Murray, Sienna Holdings, Luisiana and Dick Gale, Sera Lane, Eileen and Tom Gehrig, Judy Holm, Shareen Punlan, Juline and Joe Paulino, Richard Madden, Bill Suiter, Sally Campbell, Kristan Diefenbach, Pam and Eric Lischeske, and the Sausalito Yacht Club. On the East Coast, my work can be found in the collection of Suzanne and John Scully of Vero Beach, Florida and Rye, New York.

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Richard Mickley
64 Issaquah Dock
Sausalito, CA 94965
415 332-4135