Richard MacDonald’s Trumpeter is an exceptional work of art that has the potential to transcend the time and place of its creation and become a perfect expression of the most elusive of all emotions: joy. Radiant and fleeting, joy is a rare gift. It is this same joy that we see in the dancing form of Richard MacDonald’s Joie de Vivre. The Trumpeter is the essence of nature, springtime and youth. With her light step we sense a movement as natural as falling water, as her raised trumpet plays to our imagination. With flawless virtuosity, Richard MacDonald has taken clay and sculpted a perfect representation of the human form – but one that carries with it mysteries that cannot be accounted for by the accuracy of anatomy or detail. Imagination and spirit comes into play, and the artist reaches into a realm of fantasy and memory, dreams and mythology, to create a work of art that communicates, wordlessly, the joy of life and all its inexplicable beauty.