Shannon Ravenhall began carving in 1986. Although painting had been her passion for many years, the instant she put her hands on stone, she knew she was home. It turned out to be her natural medium.
Shannon selects stone to which she feels an immediate connection. Of her method she states: "the sculpture becomes a form of syncronicity. I prefer not to impose an idea into the piece, but rather open up and let the stone speak to me."
Shannon's relationship with form and space probably began in her native Wisconsin when she worked at the Wingspread Foundation, a Johnson Wax Company housed in a Frank Lloyd Wright building. She moved to California, working at the Rand Corporation. She also tried the Hollywood thing, working as a TV Production assistant for ABC. When she moved to BC she spent 14 years at UBC's Faculty of Law as support staff.
The "relationship of form and space, plus the beauty and strength of simplicity continues to be an important underlying theme. Despite the intrinsic obstacles and challenges of each piece, the whole experience for me is like a timeless, wonderful dance."
Shannon is a full-time sculptor and has exhibited in many galleries, art festivals and also in the 1994 Street of Dreams Show Home "The Empress." Her work is in private, corporate and international collections.