David Ponsler

It has been said that if Alice had fallen into David Ponsler's workshop instead of a rabbit hole, her destination would still have been wonderland.

In his personal wonderland, David forges huge, ornate gates adorned with enormous swags of copper roses, elegant chandeliers covered in wrought-iron lilies, a myriad of elaborate architectural ironworks. And with a background of European studies of master blacksmithing arts in London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Salzburg, Mr. Ponsler has become increasingly enamoured with the potential of his medium and continues to exploit the combination of movement-in-iron, movement-in-steel.

In great demand for ornamental iron in some of the most prestigious residences in America, Mr. Ponslers struggles to find more time for his drive to create unbelievably weightless, almost airy sculptures from unbelievably powerful and weighty material. The challenge of the combination -- light vs. heavy -- results in unforgettable pieces of startling and graceful sculpture.

For an especially provocative commissioned work, Ponsler created a large scale figurative work, twelve feet tall, modeled after his own hand.

Beautiful at a distance and equally beautiful at close scrutiny, the joy in David Ponsler's work has impact of its own, in a nook, in the garden, featured on a terrace or poised at a distance on a sturdy pedestal. Rare and distinctive, it is becoming more and more routine amongst shrewd collectors to hear "Oh -- that's a Ponsler!"