Robin Putnam works in alabaster and Indiana limestone, studying with Bill Snow in Carthage, MO. She has work in private collections in Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Oregon and Texas. She is a retired volunteer Director of ArtCentral, a non-profit art organization in Carthage. She served 10 years on the Board of Directors. She was the 2004 Carthage Chamber of Commerce Artist of the Year. BA with Honors from Missouri Southern State University. She studied at Oxford University, Oxford, England and the Folkhogskola, Mullsjo, Sweden. "With polished Indiana limestone there is such a contrast with the warm, earthy colors and the coolness of touch. The fossil inclusions make this a unique stone and the tight grain allows the carver to use crisp lines creating shadows necessary for enhancing intricate aspects of the overall design. Alabaster is more of a challenge but the beautiful colors make it all worthwhile and lead one to design pieces based on the colors and their variations. I love working outdoors, chips flying, the roar of the air hammer.....it's all very invigorating and at the end of the day when the dust settles it's awesome to see how the stone has taken on new dimensions in anticipation of the final design."