Wood Art Sculpture Carving Artist

Transforming wood into sculpture as an intuitive act of discovery. The work is predominantly improvised and exploratory. At the beginning there is only the wood, often with no fully conceived idea of the final form. Finding and uncovering the hidden yet clear vision beneath the surface, something is sensed felt and pulled towards but unknown until it is fully revealed.

 

Beginning with the wood, what does it have to offer and where can this lead. The particular characteristics of this natural material determine what is cut away and what will be kept. Each new curve or angle carved from the wood reveals what the next step may be, a new challenging clue. Like a dinosaur bone buried in earth, the sculpture is in there somewhere.

 

These sculptures are created as starting points for the imagination, captured glimpses of hidden worlds that peek around the edges of everyday reality. Of smoke, of dance, of seaweed moving underwater, of swarming flocks of small birds undulating impossibly through the sky, of the movement of our own ideas and emotions. Strangely familiar organic living forms with dynamic shapes and movements reminiscent of natural forces, of birds and fish and currents of water and wind, that welcome multiple interpretations.

 

This work is about discovery, both during the process of making and experiencing a finished piece.