Artist Spotlight: Andy Goldsworthy

Sculptor

He found that enjoyed the outdoors much more than working inside in a studio. Nature is his inspiration. Although he usually works in rural settings, his definition of the natural world is expansive. "Nature for me isn't the bit that stops in the national parks," he says. "It's in a city, in a gallery, in a building. It's everywhere we are."

Led in the movement "Land Art," an American movement of the 1960s Goldsworthy specializes in the ephemeral. He believes that nothing can or should last forever,

Ephemeral: defined as "lasting for a very short time"

Ephemera: defined as "things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time"

Ephemeral Art: defined as "a new genre of art that combines natural elements with artistic creativity, usually but not limited to natural art scupltures and aetheticly pleasing images created from natural materials that inheretly will decay over time"

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