“His Majesty The King has approved the renaming of the Platinum Jubilee Stakes to The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes.” “The Late Queen’s close association with Ascot Racecourse was well known throughout the world, but no race at the Royal Meeting previously carried the name of Queen Elizabeth II,” Francis Brooke, the King’s Representative at Ascot, said in a statement. There will also be a photo exhibition in dedication to her influence on the sport. Organizers are also determined to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and have permanently renamed one of the races in her honor.
This week, King Charles III and his wife, Queen Camilla, will be the focus of much pomp and circumstance as Royal Ascot looks to usher in a new era – the couple will lead the royal procession on Tuesday. She loved racing and saw 24 horses she owned win at the festival. Her presence was not purely ceremonial, though. Thousands would flock to watch her and the royal entourage make their way in horse-drawn carriages up the Straight Mile in front of packed grandstands each day before racing got underway. The horse racing spectacle became synonymous with the late monarch, with her deep passion for the sport a hook on which the festival hung its hat on. Because of its ingenious simplification of sculptural imagery, the Tobey design is instantly recognizable, and will remain so under Rebecca’s able hand.Britain’s King Charles III is set to feature prominently at this year’s Royal Ascot, as the race week bids to forge a new identity since the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The two had created a style of art that is unique and distinctive. In 2010 Rebecca returned to creating in ceramics for the first time in 15 years. Rebecca, devastated but strong, continues the legacy of their spirited work in memory of her late husband. He is a man who will be missed for the contributions that he made to the people around him by giving of his great heart as well as his talent. Unfortunately, Gene Tobey lost his battle with leukemia in 2006. One person takes a step and the other has to take a step to catch up.” In the 1990’s, the Tobeys began to work in bronze, continuing their tradition of stylized animals. It’s a blessing when two people work together, not compete but combine.
I look at Rebecca’s work and feel privileged, not jealous. There’s always something new, and the experiment goes on. We’re dealing with our own aesthetic and having fun with it. In Gene’s words, “There are times I don’t like being called an artist because I don’t know the parameters of the term. Once he realized that Rebecca had moved firmly – and permanently – from a technician into an equally creative artist, Gene called his galleries and instructed them to change the credit to “Gene & Rebecca Tobey.” One or two delayed, resisting the idea of naming two people, but now the artistic marriage is etched into each piece. “I realized I needed new thoughts and different hands to make different pieces,” said Gene Tobey. Another was made for a show of fourteen pieces in Vail – and again it was the first to sell. I wanted a sharp, crisp finish.” Rebecca Tobey coated sections of two sculptures with clay slip. Glazes are chemicals that melt and bleed. “In summer of 1987 Gene Tobey had an opening at Presdon Gallery,” she recalls, “I wanted to use colored clay slips instead of glazes. Over the months, however, Rebecca Tobey slowly began to develop her own techniques and her own ideas about the kind of surfaces that would enhance the three-dimensional qualities of the sculptures. Rebecca Tobey did the glazing, imbuing the sculptures with color before the final firing. Then, using a steel stylus he engraved designs. Gene Tobey first made a mold of an animal and cut out sections to be superimposed on other parts of the animal. The sculptures in the mid-1980’s were an interesting combination of techniques. “She was my glaze technician,” Tobey explained, meaning the person who applies the glazes before firing. The collaboration began with Rebecca acting as assistant on Gene’s sculptures, which evolved from dishes and practical ceramics to stylized animals.
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