Dale,

Thank you for your good feedback.  I am still in process of entering portfolio images into Vertical Artisans galleries, so keep checking back. I have been a passionate  specialist in this business for my entire career, which beganwith a 12 year staff role at Cincinnati Zoo follwed by 14 years at National Aquarium In Baltimore.  I have now been on my own building up a freelance career since April 2010.   

The AUSTRALIA-WILD EXTREMES project was the largest effort to date...It took about 5 years total, beginning with conceptual development efforts involving an in-house team along with the architect Chermayeff, Sollogub and Poole.  We worked intensively for about 3 years honing the concepts and detailing construction documents, models, traveling to Australia for images, etc...  The actual construction took about 2 years from groundbreaking to opening day; Cemrock was awarded the bid for exhibit fabrication, and I worked on-site with their excellent crew virtually every day as project art director and quality control fanatic.  The Aquarium really got their A-Team for this project, and orchestrating a good rapport between Client and Contractor was insturmental in getting such a high degree of quality in the work, as you can see. 

Once their contract was up, there was still all manner of detailing and puch-out which needed to happen.  I hired a small but tight crew of local artistis/craftspeople and we ground ourselves into the dirt completing everything for grand opening.  I was literally finishing up the Aboriginal Rock Paintings during Aquarium member preview tours, and included a few random visitor's hand prints as painted elements in the rock art gallery.

It's good to be part of this forum, and I look forward to making contacts with colleauges from all around.  Hopefully we may be able to meet up together in a working situation somewhere down the road.

Cheers,

-Allan S.

Allan Sutherland Studios, LLC

I was having a good time there when ZAP we got cut off! Good to befriend you, thanks for the invite!

Hi  Dale   great  work, Nice pictures  of your rocks     , I   wish  you the best  .  Hope see you soon  in  one of Nathan's  Classes.

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