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Barcel Bronze Metalwork

As a child, I spent my summers working alongside my Father at our family-owned Sawmill, in Bellwood, Nebraska.  There, he taught me how to work on heavy machinery and fabricate new pieces of machinery, welding and how to run my own business.

While I was seven, my Father commissioned chainsaw carver, Steve Blanchard, to create a sculpture out of a 7-ton Redwood log.  While watching Steve transform that log into a lumberjack, I knew that I wanted to be an artist.

Unfortunately, as the years went on, I lost sight of my childhood dreams, and began working different jobs in “Corporate America” however, I kept feeling this pull to go back to my art.  So that’s what I did.  One small step at a time, I started working on my art again.  The more work I created, the stronger my desire to be an artist full-time grew.  But I was scared.  I kept questioning myself.  How would I be able to support myself off of my artwork.

I began examining different avenues and stated creating personalized metal signs and metal wall art but I still wasn’t satisfying that feeling I had.  That feeling that I needed to be creating something bigger.  Something that I could pour myself into.

By sheer fate, I was invited by a friend to attend a seminar about bronze sculpting.  As I sat in the seminar and they detailed all the steps to creating a bronze, I knew that that’s what I was supposed to be doing.  I just knew that I could do it.  I already had most of the necessary skills needed locked away in my memory from all those years of working in the Mill with my Dad.

So that’s what I did.  I finally took that step of faith and left “Corporate America” in the Fall of 2015 and I’ve been a bronze sculptor ever since.

My work ranges in size from miniature to monument, but my focus is realistic monument bronze sculptures.

My husband, Zach Tate, and I currently reside outside Bellwood where I maintain my private studio.

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