Kevin Buntin

Kevin Buntin currently resides within the wilds of Troy,Ohio, with his beautiful wife, brilliant stepdaughter, and one very eccentric cat. Art has always been a part of his life, literally and if he wasn't drawing or sculpting, Kevin could be found exploring the out doors, all the while creating his own worlds of magic and adventure in his mind. Kevin was drawing such things as Viking ships teeming with warriors on Goldenrod notebook paper and modeling mummies and Frankenstein monsters out of Plasticine clay since elementary school. Ever since he was a child, his mind has been overflowing with characters and fantastic creatures and the worlds in which they live, all of his own devising, and they all demanded to be released. Through his art and writing, Kevin does that. Kevin is first and foremost- in both his art and writing- a story teller. “I don't really make too many immediately obvious statements, nor are they terribly profound; I'll leave that to other more high-minded artists who prefer to make pieces too big for most of the space left to us in this world. I don't do art out of pretense or a desire for recognition or wealth. I do it because I always have; it is a compulsion, a need. When I stay away from it for too long, I become ill,” says Kevin. 

              Typically, the size of Kevin’s work and the subject matter of it tend to focus on the microcosm rather than the macrocosm. These little pieces occupy the space left over in the world, the tiny places between the roots and the trees. Indeed, a great deal of the material he uses for his work makes use of materials that most people would simply discard as too small, as scraps, as what is left over. Kevin does all of the work himself- from the armatures, to the sets, the modeling and sculpting, right down to the costumes. And so, too, Kevin does with his writing: creating his own universe and borrowing from scraps and bits of myths and folklore from all over the world to create his own unique landscapes and sagas.

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