Winston has officially retired from carving gemstone. He announced, “I’ve decided that for 68 years I need to preserve my hands for carving the remaining 98-pound turquoise gemstone along with one remaining 86 pound Bluebird Mine Azurite Malachite gemstone.” Both stones have been in his collection since 1987.
He also said, “In fairness to my collectors and personal friends I will continue to take custom orders through the end of this year, 2016.”
All of his works on his website are sold. Only the 106,000.00 karat turquoise eagle sculpture is available at Gilbert Ortega’s in Arizona on 5th Ave. & Scottsdale Rd for a current figure of $2,000,000.00
Currently, Winston has a few promised carvings he’s working on and a dozen different carvings that need to be mounted in silver and gold that he’s had in his collection for a couple years. He will be posting these works for sale one at a time on Facebook and the front page of his website. Should you want something special for yourself or a family member custom made, PM Winston in the next couple months.
Thanks so very much for your lifelong patronage to Winston and his Art.
Winston started his carving career as a hobby in his garage in 1976. Over the last thirty years, he has moved from state to state while he started and ran three retail stores each in a different state. Winston started his retail store concept with a tiny shop in Fountain Hills Arizona with renowned mineral collector Cecil Storer in the late 80’s and continued with a store in Laguna Beach California and later in Ruidoso New Mexico. He traveled in a “shop on wheels” motorhome over half of the United States only to come full circle by working again out of his home studio in Daytona Beach Florida. At sixty years of age, Winston has a dream of finishing his lifelong career by sculpting a huge table mesa entering the town of Sedona Arizona. If commissioned the sculpture would be a large horse head, Native American face and eagle head as the Trinity tribute to the Native American and their forefathers.
