Pen on newspaper – Nov 2015. POA.
Ronald Rae’s latest surreal drawings on newspapers feature some of his favourite animals.
Splayed Hare
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The Jerusalem Donkey
Pen on newspaper – Nov 2015. POA.
Ronald Rae’s latest surreal drawings on newspapers feature some of his favourite animals.
Ronald Rae’s endangered species move to Edinburgh Airport
Ronald Rae’s latest sculptures Baby Elephant and Gorilla Family were exhibited from August till November 2015 at Edinburgh Airport’s new plaza to welcome visitors to the Festival City. The site for the Baby Elephant was next to Africa on the world map on the tarmac making a powerful statement about the plight of these wild and wonderful creatures. The Baby Elephant is now on exhibition at the West End of Edinburgh and the Gorilla Family has joined the Ronald Rae Exhibition at the Falkirk Wheel where ten sculptures are displayed.
The plaza links the East Terminal to the Tram Terminus. The tram goes to the city centre with a stop at St Andrew Square where visitors can see another Ronald Rae endangered species – the 20 tonne Lion.
Life coming at you like a rocket and it’s not a healing to stop it
Life coming at you like a rocket and it’s not a healing to stop it
Here you are miner-mole heaving earth in the dark out into the dark
In God’s own image if we like other endangered species
Are heading in the same direction how will it be
For God without moles and without tunnels to follow
A mole without the dark earth and tunnels to dig
A mole the planet Earth between its claws
This is why you might want to walk in the sunlight again
You might want to think that daylight can warm you again
You might want to think the smallest act of love can bring the universe to tears
You might want to walk out knowing the universe does cry over such things
So many fractured daylights here you are a miner-mole
An endangered species tunnelling pole to pole
And God following the twists and turns of where you go he too is getting lost
From this heap of earth to that heap of earth
And before lost to trampling are life’s possibilities
May it be found for miner-mole an extended lease
But not solely for underground endeavours
Ronald Rae
Cramond Fish at Christmas
Ronald Rae and Pauline wish to thank all followers of the website for their support and for the wonderful feedback received throughout the year. We look forward to keeping you updated with further events in 2015.
St. Francis
Granite: 5x11x3ft. 6.00 tons. Sold. Location: National Trust for Scotland Threave Garden, Dumfries and Galloway.
After being on loan to the NTS for three years St. Francis will now be staying on at Threave due to the generosity of long term NTS members George and Sue Thomas.
This emotive work depicts St. Francis lying in retreat on “that rugged rock twixt Tiber and Arno” as Dante described La Verna. The sculpture shows the saint surrounded by the birds that he loved and preached to. Brother Wolf is carved on the other side of the stone. Legend has it that St. Francis saved the village of Gubbio from being ravished of its flocks by persuading the people to feed the fierce hungry wolf. In return for this kindness the wolf became a friend to everyone and a follower of St. Francis and thereafter called Brother Wolf.
It has been written that on this mountainside St. Francis took on the stigmata – the wounds of Christ. In the sculpture Rae has given Brother Wolf the stigmata. Legend also says that when St. Francis died Brother Wolf was at his side.
The St. Francis stone from Tillyfourie in Aberdeenshire is of great geological interest being a mix of pink and silver-grey granite and dark grey basalt which fused together when the earth was formed. For this stone that happened 470 million years ago!
To see a short video of St. Francis being installed go to LATEST NEWS ON VIDEO at right margin and scroll down to Ronald Rae’s St. Francis sculpture moves to Threave Garden.
Sculptures For Sale
The sculptures presented here are available for sale or for hire. Pleased contact us if you would like to discuss the possibility of owning a unique Ronald Rae granite sculpture.
The human soul never will it become less than our supply of love to it
The human soul never will it become less than our supply of love to it
If ever fatigue of spirit was read it would read
The soil that supports us the soil that will never be anything else but soil
The soil that fires hope into belief and belief into breathing for itself
The soil from which futures are forged let those soils act
Let them as soils show footprints believing in possibility and hope
Why not let our children believe they can go looking for worm-casts on the moon
The soil of seeming that it becomes the soil of the believable
The soil of growing and nurturing the soil of conscience restored
The flower-heads of tolerance and compromise
This is the fire of a great fire a soil turned and turned again
This from a deliberate and precise ploughing
A bite of earth and its digestion listen to it
The soil preparing to outlive the politics
The mother of us and her new order
Until it appears that first fresh green shoot
The soil of deep study is a soil manured
Ronald Rae
Baby Elephant at Edinburgh Airport
Baby Elephant – granite: 5x5x4 ft 3.00 tonnes. Location: photo at the plaza at Edinburgh Airport – now at the West End of Edinburgh. For Sale
Ronald Rae’s latest granite carvings of two endangered species a Baby Elephant and a Gorilla Family were exhibited for the first time on the plaza at Edinburgh Airport to welcome visitors to the Festival City from August till November 2015. To see a video of the sculptures being installed see Latest News on Video at right hand margin.
Ronald Rae said ” I am delighted to show these new works at Edinburgh Airport. I am particularly thrilled about the site for the Baby Elephant next to Africa on the world map on the plaza. It makes a powerful statement about the plight of elephants and all endangered species. What better place to think about these important conservation issues than at an airport which links us all.”
The Baby Elephant is carved from a three tonne boulder of pink Corrennie granite from Aberdeenshire. To see unique footage of the creation of the Baby Elephant go to the right margin at LATEST NEWS ON VIDEO scroll down to Ronald Rae returns to carving granite Parts One, Two, Three to its completion in Part Four.
The plaza links the East Terminal and the Tram Terminus. The tram goes to Edinburgh city centre with a stop at St Andrew Square where visitors can see another Ronald Rae endangered species – his 20 tonne Lion.
Gorilla Family arriving at Edinburgh Airport
Granite: Ht. 6ft x 7ft x 5ft. 7 tonnes. Location: The Falkirk Wheel after 3 months on the plaza at Edinburgh Airport. For sale.
Gorilla Family and Baby Elephant were exhibited for the first time at the new plaza at Edinburgh Airport from August till November 2015. The plaza links the East Terminal and the Tram Terminus. The tram goes to the city centre with a stop at St Andrew Square where visitors can see another Ronald Rae endangered species – the Lion.
The Gorilla Family was carved from a 7 tonne granite boulder from Dalbeattie Quarry near Dumfries. The dark grey granite has been dated at 397 million years old. Ronald Rae is widely known for his powerful animal sculptures – the gorilla joins this group of seriously endangered species.
To see a video of the Gorilla Family and the Baby Elephant being moved to Edinburgh Airport go to Latest News on Video on the right margin. Also see three short videos of Ronald Rae carving the Gorilla Family.