# Green Symphony

The musical title announces the organizing principle: this is not a single voice but a chord, a range of greens moving from muted sage to vivid jade to the quiet yellow-green of new growth, distributed across the stacked forms with the attention to interval and proportion that Zimmerman brought to his four decades as a painter. His botanical world was formed early, shaped by the French painters Henri Rousseau and Paul Gauguin and deepened by twelve years of painting journeys to Kauai, where the density and luminosity of tropical vegetation became a sustained subject. 

That jungle sensibility, the sense of nature as exuberant and proliferating and charged with color, is transmuted here into the ceramic vocabulary of the totem. The forms themselves suggest growth: rounded like seed pods, tapered like new shoots, stacked with the organic logic of a living column. Housed in a simple gray vessel at the base, the sculpture rises with the quiet inevitability of something that was always going to become what it is.

Please note: The base is not included. We will guide you through a simple installation process for outdoor or indoor placement.

## Details

- **Price:** 5500.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout

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## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 80"×13"×10"
- **Artist Material:** Ceramic totem sculpture
- **Artist Name:** Marc Zimmerman
- **About The Artist Link:** https://www.artscout.pro/collections/marc-zimmerman

### About The Artist Content

Marc Zimmerman is an American painter and ceramic sculptor based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, recognized for exuberant, color-driven works that fuse tropical imagery, figurative elements, and stylized botanical forms. Across both canvas and clay, his practice is defined by a playful visual language and a confident orchestration of color that feels at once joyful, intuitive, and structurally resolved.

Zimmerman’s distinctive vocabulary was shaped early through his work in woodcut printmaking, which instilled the crisp edges and compositional clarity that continue to anchor his paintings today. His lush, immersive environments draw inspiration from the dreamlike worlds of Henri Rousseau and Paul Gauguin, while extended periods living and painting in Kauai, Hawaii, as well as time in Mexico and Europe, infused his work with the saturated light and rhythmic vitality that define his celebrated Jungle and Tropical Fantasy Floral series.

In recent years, Zimmerman has returned to his earliest artistic passion, clay, expanding his practice into the sculptural realm with his Garden Totems. These vertically stacked ceramic works are hand-built and individually glazed, each element supporting the next in a spontaneous, intuitive process. Rooted in his pottery background from Venice Beach in the 1960s and 70s, the totems translate his painterly sensibility into three dimensions, bringing the same sense of movement, humor, and joie de vivre into the garden or interior space.

A lifelong artist with more than four decades of studio practice, Zimmerman has been an active presence on the Monterey Peninsula since the 1990s. His work is represented by galleries in California, Florida, and New York, and is held in private collections throughout the United States and internationally.

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> Updated: 2026-08-28