Edgar Twilley has been making and teaching art for over 30 years. His teaching career began at Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine in 1987, and in 1990 he accepted the position of Arts Instructor at Bonny Eagle High School in Standish, Maine.  During his 30 year tenure at Bonny Eagle he taught all manner of art courses including AP Studio Art, Stone Carving and Metal Casting, and Digital Imaging. His most recent curriculum added Art and Technology where students used the HTC Vive to build sculpture in Virtual Reality.  The “virtual” sculptures were then converted to digital files to produce a 3D “print” which was then cast in pewter. 

 

While teaching high school he was also an Adjunct Professor at the University of New England where he taught sculpture for 10 years. In 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Edgar could not continue classroom teaching. At this point, he returned to sculpting full time and has set up his studio space at 121 Cassidy Point on the Portland Waterfront. Cassidypoint.com

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Edgar specializes in large-scale steel sculptures, and though his materials are of significant weight and rigidity, he approaches his materials with a goal of making the heavy seem weightless; the dense appear airy; and the steel emerge as a fluid object.  

 

Much of his past work has been an extended series using only a single length of steel I-beam for each piece. Individual beams were cut and unfolded as though the rigid steel had come alive. Upon moving into the studio at Cassidy Point, Edgar has begun a new series using steel plate. Each work uses a single section of steel plate that is cut, heated and bent. The re-formed steel plate presents a new form creating a graceful movement that seems to defy gravity.

 

 Permanent outdoor installations include:

     Delaware State University, Wesley Campus, Dover, Delaware

     Dover Public Library, Dover, Delaware

     University of New England, Biddeford Campus, Maine 

     Maine Antique Digest, Waldoboro, Maine

     Rippleffect, Cow Island, Casco Bay, Portland, Maine