This year Canada's Seashore Festival will host five of Canada's premiere master sand sculptors who will work together to create one giant, amazing sculpture. The sketch below shows what the finished sculpture will look like. The master sculptors will also be holding daily sculpting clinics. Learn from the best then enter yourself into the amateur competition for great prizes. Sculpting clinics will be held daily from July 7th to July 11th at 10:00am and 6:00pm.

Our Master Sculptors:

Patricia Leguen
Master Sand Sculptor from Saskatchewan
www.artistsincanada.com/leguen

 Born and raised by the Atlantic Ocean in Britanny, Patricia came to Saskatoon in 1979 to teach French at the University of Saskatchewan, and studied fine arts there for two years as well and discovered sculpture. She settled in Canada in 1983 and continued sculpting while teaching. In 1990, she started her own business as a conference interpreter and translator. She also attending her first national snow sculpture competition in 1991 in Quebec City and won 3rd place. In 1993, she won 1st place and artist choice there and has been competing internationally at over 100 competitions and festivals since then, winning numerous prizes. In 1995, she discovered sand sculpting and ice carving and in 2000 fire sculpting. When she is not busy traveling across Canada at conferences, she travels the world sculpting snow, ice and sand all year around.
In February 2007, she was invited to compete at the Festival du Voyageur in Winnipeg for snow sculpting. In May it was the Tournament of Champions in Harrison Hot Springs after winning 3 prizes at the World Sand Sculpture Championships. In November she was sand sculpting in Fort Myers, Florida and in January 2008 she was carving ice and snow in Harbin, China, where she won the bronze medal in snow sculpting.

Peter Vogelaar
Master Sand Sculptor
www.snowsculpture.com
 
Peter has been an artist for most of his life and is accomplished in many different media.  He enjoys painting musicians on the spot with watercolors at festivals, street scenes and landscapes in oils, drawing with silver, and much more.  Since 1992, he has been creating snow sculptures and has experienced great success with this ephemeral medium.   His team has won numerous awards around the world and was very proud of winning the gold medal and people's choice at the Olympic Snow Sculpture Competition in Torino, Italy.
 

Abe Waterman     
Master Sand Sculptor from PEI

An artist from Caledonia Corners, PEI, Abe is a talented painter, musician and sculptor.  With his brother Ben he has won the Atlantic Open Snow Sculpture contest the past two years.  He was one of sand sculptors invited to carve for a month last June at Sandland in Charlottetown, PEI and he will be there again this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stéphane Robert AKA Bob
Master Sand Sculptor from Quebec

As a self-taught artist for the past 12 years, I have been experimenting with different mediums such as wood, snow, wax, sand and even chocolate. I thrive to push the limits of my art and passion in everything I do and create every single day. I hope that through my sculpting, I can show people’s well-being, in their mind and body.

Mélineige Beauregard
Master Sand Sculptor from Quebec
www.melineige.com

I discovered my passion by watching my father and learning from him. My first attempts were in snow sculpting. Then I tried sand sculpting and developed a great passion for it. My experience with ice carving was very brief, only one competition, but I intend to pursue it further as I really enjoyed it. As a mother now I cannot travel as much as I want so sculpting is only a part-time passion for me and I attend 4 or 5 events per year.  However, I also discovered another medium to work with, marble, and I am preparing a permanent exhibition of marble sculptures right now.