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M. L. Snowden
A sculptor in the tradition and lineage of Rodin, M.L. Snowden's work exploresthe monumental forces and energies of geological phenomena and human figuration.They are intended to convey power and movement through abstract and representational elements.
Working primarily in lost wax-cast bronze, she uses the working methods of Auguste Rodin and the Mercie studios of Paris. Her father, sculptor George Holburn Snowden, was a professional in the Rodin studios at the turn of the 19th century. M.L. Snowden spent 17 years as an apprentice to her father,who in 1990 bequeathed to her his collection of Auguste Rodin’s sculpting tools.
M.L. Snowden is the designer and sculptor of the gilded bronze Altar Angels that wrap and float around the base of the marble altar in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. She also designed the twelve-foot, half ton silver Los Angeles Angel Frieze in the Cathedral's Visitor's Conference Center. Sculpture for Snowden is "love." She works alone in her studio without assistants or models. "Sculpture is something that flows through me and expresses my emotions, my love, my feeling, my touch." She feels "the angels were something that went beyond words. They rest in a place of truth for me."
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