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Why hello there, Here is a bobble head Deer, my tail wags too!
Here is my W.I.P. for my May 30th opening.. |
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| some paint |
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| I start to carve Tree Girls face |
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| Some Features |
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| 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. |
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| She measures 5 feet! and yes she is anatomically correct aka naked |
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| The boat in progress, wheels are being added.... |
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| Cutting out the birds |
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| Balancing the cat |
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| "Boone" the horse |
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| His head is carved from a solid piece of bass wood |
I lay out some salvaged bits for the horse
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| A little help from Reno, setting the eyes |
Here, Kitty Kitty Albino Squirrel's make the best friends
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
