“We are touched by what we touch. We are shaped by what we shape. We are enhanced by what we enhance.”

(From The Great Work by Thomas Berry)

Sculpture invites us to more fully engage with our environment. It helps focus our attention on nature’s materials and forms. Sculpture has presence and enlivens a setting. As we interact with sculpture, our senses are heightened and we become more acutely aware of the intricate beauty of our places.

June LaCombe is an independent arts consultant specializing in sculpture in the New England region. She curates and sites exhibitions of sculpture and oversees sales, delivery, siting, and installations. Sculpture suited for gardens and landscapes in a variety of mediums including granite, bronze, wood, stoneware, and steel are featured in shows. Themes have included: Art and the Landscape, In Celebration of Place, Focal Point, The Heart of Matter, Sculpture for this Animate Earth, and Touchstones: Sculpture Participating with Place.  She has sited sculpture in sanctuaries and environmental studies centers, international corporate offices and grounds, private estates, and has invited collectors to her home to view gardens and rooms designed for sculpture.  June LaCombe has also acted as guest curator for galleries and sculpture courts in Maine including, The Barn Gallery, Turtle Gallery, Greenhut Gallery, Caldbeck Gallery and the Blum Gallery.  

June’s shows demonstrate both the careful placement of sculpture in a variety of settings and the strength and quality of sculpture being created in our region. She states, “My goal is to find the right piece of sculpture for the setting so that both will resonate in new ways. Sculpture can help us explore our relationship with our environment and give years of contemplative pleasure. There is a changing role for sculpture today. Sculpture holds a place in a garden or landscape making us more aware of natural forces.  It sets up a relationship with the land and enlivens a place.  Sculpture can provide a focal point for a contemplative garden. A strong piece of sculpture will continue to reveal itself over time and celebrate the beauty of the material, the sensual appreciation of form, and its setting.”   

"Buying original art supports the creative economy; living with art nurtures our soul and inspires our own creative spirit." JL

Select Listing of Sculpture Shows Curated by June LaCombe SCULPTURE

~Art in the Garden Aucocisco Nursery 1989

~Sculpture for the Garden-Aucocisco Nursery 1990

~Touchstones- Ogunquit’s Barn Gallery 1990

~Maine Festival- Brunswick Maine 1990- 1991

~Sculpture - Meeting Hill Farm Yarmouth, 1992

~Sculpture and the Landscape- The Maine Audubon Society 1993-1994

~At Home with Sculpture- Hawk Ridge, Pownal Maine 1996

~Portland City Annual- Portland, Maine 1997

~Island Sculpture- Great Diamond Island, 1997

~Sanctuary- Gilsland Farm, Maine Audubon Society, Falmouth, Maine 1998

~Sculpture and the Workplace- Cole Haan Corporate Headquarters, Yarmouth, 1998 ~Sculpture Inside/Outside- Greenhut Gallery, Portland-1999 and 2000

~Art in Nature- (co-curator) Waterfall Arts Center, Montville, Maine 2001

~Sense of Place- Chewonki Foundation Wiscasset, Maine 2001

~Heart of Matter- Chewonki Foundation Wiscasset, 2002

~In Celebration of Place- Hawk Ridge Farm Pownal, 2002

~Sculpted Jewelry and Small Works- Hawk Ridge Farm, Pownal, ME 2002

~Focal Point- Hawk Ridge Farm, Pownal ME 2003

~Sculpture for This Animate Earth- Hawk Ridge Farm 2004

~Touchstones- Sculpture Participating with Place-

Blum Gallery College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor Maine 2005

Hawk Ridge Farm, Pownal Maine 2005

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Boothbay, Maine 2005

~ Coming to Our Senses- Sculpture for the Home and Garden

Hawk Ridge Farm Pownal, Maine 2006

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens- Boothbay Maine 2006

~ Where Nature and Culture Meet - 2007

Sculpture at Maine Audubon Falmouth, Maine

Sculpture at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Boothbay, Maine

~ Water and Gravity, Pownal Maine - 2008

~ Wind and Light, Boothbay, Maine - 2009

~ RETURN Sculpture for the Contemplative Garden, Pownal, Maine - 2009

~ RE-IMAGINED Sculpture by Wendy Klemperer, Boothbay, Maine - 2009

~ SCULPTURE for the SENSES, Boothbay, Maine - 2009

Also guest curated additional shows for the Maine Festival, Caldbeck Gallery, and the Turtle Gallery.