Arizona Oddities

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Your Guides
  • Departments
    • Art
    • Dose of History
    • Culture
    • Natural Surroundings
    • Odd Observations
    • Weather Talk
    • Food & Dining
    • Small Town Scene
    • Recreation
    • Only in Arizona
  • Get the Books
  • Contact Us

logo

Arizona Oddities

  • Home
  • Your Guides
  • Departments
    • Art
    • Dose of History
    • Culture
    • Natural Surroundings
    • Odd Observations
    • Weather Talk
    • Food & Dining
    • Small Town Scene
    • Recreation
    • Only in Arizona
  • Get the Books
  • Contact Us
Art
Home›Art›Featured Artists: Sheri and Ralph Meldrum of Meldrum Art

Featured Artists: Sheri and Ralph Meldrum of Meldrum Art

By Andrea Aker
February 27, 2012
1256
0

Once a month, Arizona Oddities features a Q&A with a talented Arizona artist who is influenced by our state’s people, places and history. This month, a husband-and-wife team share their inspiration for utilizing one of Arizona’s greatest natural resources.

Featured Artists: Sheri and Ralph Meldrum of Meldrum Art

Courtesy of Meldrum Art

Medium: Copper
Website: www.sherimeldrum.com
City of residence: Cave Creek
Hometown: Rancho Cucumonga, California
Current shows/exhibits: Currently showing at the Celebration of Fine Art through March 25

How did you get started as an artist?

My wife has been an artist most of her life. She started weaving textiles, and then we both got into steel sculptures and worked with several other artistic mediums before finding copper.

Where do you find inspiration?

Definitely from our surroundings. Arizona is so diverse and the desert is such a beautiful place. We’re also inspired by the diversity of copper. There are so many different ways to manipulate it and create unique pieces with various tarnishes and patinas, which we enjoy experimenting with.

How does living in Arizona influence your art?

We’re using one of the “five C’s,” which is such a major part of Arizona’s history. The colors of the desert also inspire our color pallet and much of our work is an abstracted view of the natural lines and forms found in the desert.

Courtesy of Meldrum Art

What’s your favorite part about what you do?

We get to work with such an inherently beautiful medium and we get to work together. He (Ralph) cuts the sculpture pieces, and I weave the pieces. We’ve been doing this together for more than 10 years.

Favorite Arizona getaway or adventure:

Snowboarding in Sunrise

Favorite Arizona restaurant:

El Encanto in Cave Creek

I live in Arizona because…

…of the weather. It’s such a diverse state… you can go from the desert to skiing in four hours.

How would you describe Arizona to someone who has never been here before?

It’s a diverse state with incredible sunsets.

Best Arizona sunset:

Our back porch

 

(Visited 248 times, 1 visits today)

Related Posts:

  1. Featured Artist: Pete the Miner
  2. Featured Artist: Cheryle Hoover Davis
  3. Featured Artist: Claudia Torres
  4. Featured Artist: Marty Le Messurier
  5. Featured Arizona Artist: Megan Dean
Tagsartcave creekcopper

Leave a reply Cancel reply

Arizona Oddities Archive

Most Popular Posts

  • How to Keep Scorpions Away from Your Home
  • How to Keep Javelinas Away from Your Yard
  • What’s With All the Backyard Concrete-Block Fences…
  • Did You Know it’s Against the Law to Grow…
  • Can You Get a Sunburn Under Water?

This Week Past Years

2020

  • Scottsdale is Home to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Desert-Inspired Winter Haven

2017

  • Mid-Century Modern Architecture Still Vibrant in Phoenix

2016

  • An Educated Ghost Lost on Campus

2015

  • Get a Whiff of This Old Arizona Party Spot

2014

  • Hear the Balladeer's Ballads at Arizona Folklore Preserve

2013

  • Featured Artist: Pete the Miner
  • Abraham Lincoln’s Bodyguard and Other Civil War Soldiers Buried in Southern Arizona

2012

  • Celebrating the Centennial (sort of) with a Message, Compilation from Clay Thompson
  • Celebrating the Centennial: 10 People that Shaped Arizona
  • Celebrating the Centennial: My Long Distance Love Affair With Arizona
  • Billy Stiles: Lawman-Outlaw-Lawman

2011

  • Trivia on Arizona Cities & Towns: Can You Pass?

2010

  • Doc Flower: One of Old Arizona’s Great Con Men
  • Recent

  • Popular

  • Comments

  • Find a Famous Writer and Explorer's Mountain Retreat in Greer

    Find a Famous Writer and Explorer’s Historic Mountain Retreat in Greer

    By Taylor Haynes
    July 31, 2020
  • thousands of Mexican free tail bats make Phoenix tunnel their summer home

    Thousands of Mexican Free-Tail Bats Make Phoenix Tunnel Their Summer Home

    By Taylor Haynes
    July 17, 2020
  • How to Keep Scorpions Away from Your Home

    By Andrea Aker
    January 3, 2011
  • Javelina

    How to Keep Javelinas Away from Your Yard

    By Andrea Aker
    November 23, 2011
  • Phil Motta
    on
    August 27, 2021

    Why Does Downtown Phoenix Seem to Have Two Downtowns?

    I know this post ...
  • Carol
    on
    October 17, 2020

    The Tucson Artifacts are the Southwest’s Greatest Hoax

    lol ... these "clues" ...

Follow us

© Copyright 2009 – 2023 Aker Ink, LLC :: Arizona Oddities is published by Aker Ink.