Michael Tine is a figurative stone sculptor and painter in Ventura, California. He came to art at twenty-five, by way of philosophy rather than art school, and has worked in stone and paint for half a century.
This section holds the longer account, in a few forms.
- Biography is the full narrative: Cambridge to Ventura, the Marine years, the schooling, the studios, the two bodies of work.
- About the Artist is the short version, for when you want it in a paragraph.
- Artistic Philosophy is the thinking underneath the work: art as “philosophy by other means.”
- A History of Marble is the long view of the material itself, from geology to the direct-carving tradition.
- CV is the chronological record: education, exhibitions, teaching.