The World Is Mine by Annette Everett celebrates curiosity, imagination, and the limitless potential of childhood.
A boy and girl sit back-to-back atop a richly textured globe, fully absorbed in discovery and learning. Their quiet focus suggests a world filled with possibility, where knowledge and wonder open the door to countless paths forward.
Everett’s work often explores themes of growth, human connection, and the emotional experiences that shape our lives. In this piece, childhood curiosity becomes a powerful force. The sculpture reflects the belief that learning expands not only understanding, but also a person’s sense of possibility and place within the world.
The inspiration behind The World Is Mine is deeply personal. Everett recalls her mother insisting that boredom was impossible in a world overflowing with things to explore, learn, and experience. That perspective became the emotional foundation for the sculpture, which stands as both a tribute to her mother and a celebration of the endless wonder found in life and learning.
Born in Utah in 1950 and raised in Washington state, Everett showed an early passion for drawing and art. A formative experience came during a visit to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City, where seeing Pietà left a lasting impression on her understanding of beauty and expression. She studied at Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, and the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Working primarily in bronze, she has created numerous public monuments across Utah, including The Watermaster, Sandman, and memorial sculptures honoring significant regional figures and histories.
Website: annette-everett.com
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Gratitude – 2025
$9,400 – 22″ x 26″ x 12″ – Bronze
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Surrounded by three bending peasants intent on their work, one stands with her face uplifted and gives thanks. When we lived in the Midwest, we often visited the Chicago Institute of Art to see a favorite painting, Jules Breton’s “Song of the Lark.” The painting shows a peasant woman standing in a field at dawn. Her day promises to be filled with never-ending labor like every other day. But she is transfixed as she hears the song of a lark in the sky high above her. In that moment, she is lifted out of her drudgery and has a moment of hope. All this shows on her face. That was my first inspiration for this sculpture, “Gratitude.” Like the single leper who returned to give thanks to the Lord for his miraculous healing, this sculpture shows one who remembers to be grateful.
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The World Is Mine – 2024
$8,200.00 • Bronze • 24x24x17
I am a realist sculptor and earth is my medium. I work in oil-based clay cast in traditional bronze. One of my earliest influences was seeing Michelangelo’s “Pieta” on loan from the Vatican in the 1964 World’s Fair. It became a key inspiration in my art life. My goal is to depict shared experiences and communicate universal principles. Using clay and symbolism, I try to show the expressiveness of the human experience. J. Leo Fairbanks, of the outstanding Fairbanks sculpting family, wrote his artist statement as a poem, and I echo his thoughts: “Art is for service; for making things beautiful as well as useful; for lifting man above the sordid things that grind and depress; to give a joyous optimism in one’s work; to realize transitory hopes in enduring tangible material; to visualize ideals and to idealize realities.
Contemplation – 2023
This female figure sits quietly on her lily pad beside still water. Deep in thought, she has laid her head down on her raised knees to quietly contemplate the dribble of water coming through her fingers.
