Albert Crewe, Great Britian

The challenge of life drawing and working with conventional materials interests this artist who specialized in physics and obtained a doctorate in the field. Albert Crewe is a member of the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art and is currently focusing on sculpture projects. The fact that he was born in Yorkshire, England, where there is an abundance of stone buildings, perhaps heightened his interest in the art of sculpture.
Albert Crewe forms part of a long tradition of artistically talented scientists such as Nobel Prize winning scientist, Albert Michelson and Richard Feynmann. In fact, science and art share several important similarities, both generate advances through knowledge and experience ultimately achieving a new simplicity and clarity, and both deal with creation and innovation. However, for Albert Crewe there exists one important distinction, “Science appeals to the mind while art appeals to the senses.” Sensuality and particularly “tactility” are, in fact, central themes of his work. Even the stone he uses
Crewe believes the epitome of beauty lies in the female form, and chooses alabaster as his stone of choice due to its life-like qualities. Alabaster's thermal conductivity is low so that it does not conduct heat away from the hand. The result is an appropriately warm stone that reflects the qualities of the skin. Many things happen to influence the direction the work is taking, including finding new faults in the stone or a striking peculiarity such as the grain or a patch of color. Much of the time, the stone often takes charge of the whole proceedings and determines the outcome by itself. Equally spontaneously derived is his bronzes that are the result of experimenting with clay.