Eleanor Seeley Artist's Statement

While attending graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, I often went to the Art Institute in Chicago for inspiration. I had an epiphany when I saw the seven-foot bronze sculpture by Gaston Lachaise, titled “Standing Woman”. This was a profound turning point. The resonating clarity of form and line combined in a bold sculptural statement helped to inform my future sculptural statements

The "Women" are in motion, filled with grace which is not about them, but about their relationship to life. As an artist, I have been humbled by with many years as a student of the Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj. Being instructed both humanly and as an artist.

(Adi Da is currently showing his Transcendental Realism at Cenacolo di Ognissanti, Florence Italy, His art is the first contemporary art, outside the existing Renaissance Fresco's, ever shown in this Historical Florentine Catherdral.

Another very strong influence for me has been my study of Eastern Art. The Eastern culture has been able to express an intrinsic sensuality of the feminine form rarely found in Western Art. I have included here a few examples of the Eastern Indian Goddess influences.

The Sculpture of Joan Miro titled "Moonbird" (to me) is one of the most ecstatic creations of sculptural forms in existence.

I have also thoroughly enjoyed the treatment Fernando Botero gives to his larger than life sculptures.

Very early in my artistic career, I was inspired by the beautiful drawings and sculptures of Henry Moore.

And last there is a contemporary California artist who I feel has completely mastered the absolute and real essense of balance and grace-filled form...James Lloyd.


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Sculpture artist, Eleanor Seeley, is a figurative bronze Sculptor. Eleanor's sculpture style is somewhere between classical, contemporary, and Renaissance.