The Adventures of Tree Girl / Carved Wood Curiosities

Treegirl is just about ready for her close up, she measures 5 feet. She'll have many friends in the gallery with her, 38 pieces in all!

These three have a wooden boat they like to ride in

                  

              Some carved Wood Taxidermy made from Driftwood
 

His head and tail are bobble and move

"Boone" the horse has salvaged parts some, from Portland city hall

This little puppet measures 34" and is resting up

She'll be dancing for a month at the show

                                        

From an earlier photo shoot, you can see the scale of the work!

Albino Squirrel  Puppet will be perched in the window and bounce on a spring!

With Boatman at the helm , were deciding who will sit where

 

This large painting will add color to the wall

This branch looked so much like a hand  it needed just a bit of shaping and just the right perch

 

  Some Birds will fly and some have a special perches

This Dapper Fellow is 22 inched high and a favorite of mine, we went through 3 hats to find just the right one!

 Here is the Show Card before we added the title, I love it! There are 38 pieces in all

TreeGirl will be hanging around Guardino Galley starting May 30th 6-9 pm Opening Reception! until June 24

W.I.P. Work in Progress ..and YES a 5 ft. Naked Puppet !

Why hello there, Here is a bobble head Deer, my tail wags too! 
Here is my W.I.P. for my May 30th opening..

some paint

I start to carve Tree Girls face

Some Features

Her Face finished.  I cut her body from a large piece of bass wood, then chain saw power carve, chiseled and many sanding's to get her body right.

She measures 5 feet! and yes she is anatomically correct aka naked

The boat in progress, wheels are being added....

Cutting out the birds

Balancing the cat

"Boone" the horse

His head is carved from a solid piece of bass wood

I lay out some salvaged bits for the horse

A little help from Reno, setting the eyes

                  Here, Kitty Kitty                                                 Albino Squirrel's make the best friends

The show opens @ Guardino Gallery on May 30th!

          You can see the size of  the pieces with me in middle

                The Adventures of Tree girl.

   With this installation you might feel as if you’ve stumbled into a very unusual forest landscape. Inhabited by a 5ft puppet/sculpture, surrounded by many curious animals and elements….a salvage horse, bobble head deer,squirrel are just a few. Taxidermy eyes in some of the pieces lend to a peculiar touch. All the pieces are carved from different woods, which are either salvaged or collected. Wood is a bit of a mystery, with different grains, textures and ages, each presenting different challenges that can be unforgiving, but exciting to see what emerges within a block of wood.
As the work developed I decided, Tree Girl was a muse to my own adventures with wood. My style is primitive, naïve, with touches of urban, destruction and decay creeping in. I seek simplicity and escapism, in a world that is too often mass produced and violated

Sacred & Studio Scraps

  Our Exhibit @Willamette University Library is up. Five artists (and friends)came together to show what we collect and how we turn it into art! Read about it here on Facebook. Our Web sight Here, Or a wonderful article in Willamette Live

L-R Tory Brokenshire, Shelly Caldwell, Dayna Collins. Me, Jennifer Cambell

Follow the signs

I put in some new pieces

It looks good

Lots of people came to the opening! Thank You

The prize Table

And the winner is.....

Lots of yummy food

Shelly did a Demo

A sunny day in Salem Oregon

No visit to Salem is complete without a visit to Mary Lou Zeek Gallery,,, and a chance to win a prize from the art Blox machine (i also made a little art for this!)

And some sweet potato Fries!

 The  Adventures of Tree Girl has begun....my solo show @ Guardino Gallery, opening May 30

A 9 inch old wood vase will become a head

Starting to take shape

Add paint to  the eyes

Just a little paint so the wood grain shows through

                                   

A little stain adds depth, I still need to find her limbs in the forest

Stay Tuned, as the characters take shape in my studio..........