LILY ENTE, ARTIST’S STATEMENT

As a child during the First World War, my life and that of those around me was infected by poverty and ugliness. My response to these experiences was a desire to combat this deprivation with beauty. My choice of marble as a medium was made in part because it challenged me more than clay and I found great joy in the beauty of the natural forms and surfaces I could achieve.”

— Watson-Jones, Virginia, Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Oryx Press, 1986