# Stone Perch #5 Ceramic totem

Smooth periwinkle blue forms and richly textured bronze spheres alternate upward in a rhythm that feels steady and calming. At the top a fish and a figure sit together, both marked with incised lines that shift as you move around the piece. The patterned base anchors everything with the same quiet attention that runs through the whole stack. The textured surfaces catch and hold light in ways that change depending on the hour and the season - a different piece in the morning than it is at dusk. Works beautifully outdoors in a garden setting or indoors where it can be appreciated up close.

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## Details

- **Price:** 5000.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Ceramic Sculpture
- **Tags:** animal art, bird, buy original art online, California artist, ceramic sculpture, collector art, hand-built ceramic, Marc Zimmerman, totem

## Variants

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## Images

- Stone Perch 5 Ceramic Totem – hand-built ceramic totem by Zimmerman with smooth periwinkle blue forms alternating with richly textured bronze spheres, fish and figure at top with incised lines shifting as you move around, patterned base and surfaces different at dusk than dawn
- Stone Perch 5 by Zimmerman – detail of smooth periwinkle blue form beside richly textured bronze sphere with incised lines in Stone Perch series
- Stone Perch 5 by Zimmerman – full view of steady calming periwinkle and bronze totem with fish and figure at top
- Stone Perch 5 by Zimmerman – close-up of incised line detail shifting on fish and figure as you move around the piece
- Stone Perch 5 by Zimmerman – totem outdoors in garden or indoors where textured surfaces can be appreciated up close in changing light
- Stone Perch #5 Ceramic totem

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 55'' high
- **Artist Material:** Ceramic
- **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: 2026-05-30