• Forest Morph Vessel • Forest Guardian Vessel • Pawn Cocktail • Arbour Vessel • Friesian Animorph Vessel |
Forest Morph Vessel 270mm (H) x 99.5mm (W) x 97mm (D) Hand-turned and detailed in Purpleheart with contrasting incised motif in Canadian Maple. This original piece of fine art wood sculpture draws together colours and forms associated with the forest environment, including seed pods, native blooms, foliage and the roots and shafts of trees. The contrasts of line, form and colour project human perceptions and dilemmas into the quiet of the natural realm, symbolising our connection to the earth and its many planes of life. |
Forest Guardian Vessel 327mm (H) x 114mm (W) x 114mm (D) Hand-turned and sculpted from English Ash, Canadian Maple and Striped Ebony. This original artwork provides a visual representation of the protective strength and enduring life force of the forests of the earth. It is intended also to symbolise the duality and binding together of different elements in nature (as within human nature) in the contrasting character of the woods chosen. The form of the ‘branches’ is adapted so as to provide an echo of the human hand as it encloses and safeguards, while the emerging forms at the top of the vessel provide a sense of energy and of outward and upward movement, seeking to indicate the insuperability of the life force. The wood for the piece was chosen to provide a link to the major continents throughout the globe; North American and European timbers combine in alternate quadrants to form the stem while the cup and base are fashioned from an African native timber and the vessel was conceived and created in Australia. This joining together of elements from the four corners of the earth seeks to show that wood (and indeed, life, of which it is part) is not bound or contained by political or geographic boundaries. |
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Arbour Vessel 280mm (H) x 105mm (W) x 105mm (D) Hand-turned and sculpted from Silver Ash, and Silky Oak. This original sculpted vessel takes from early memories of quiet wooded places and tree-house sanctuaries, to give a sense of the protective resilience of the world of flora, and of the importance of our relationship with it. The strength and supple curves of the rising columns enclose, support and entwine the open enclosure of the cup, while their lines flow on and up and are echoed within the profile of the lip, suggestive of the ways in which life energies may be shared, transmitted and conserved. The octagonal interleaving of alternate segments of contrasting woods from trees which are found together in the remote reaches of Australian forests, adds a further reference to the joining of diverse characteristics in an harmonious and unified whole; one where seemingly opposite traits provide tension, yet serve to strengthen each other and each to throw the beauty of the other into sharper relief. |
Friesian Animorph Vessel 305mm (H) x 107mm (W) x 107mm (D) This sculpted vessel is hand incised, turned and carved from selected pieces of Silver Ash and Ebony. The Friesian Animorph vessel is one of a series of works which draw together organic forms from different quarters as an allusion to the many planes of connection between living things. As the chosen medium for these works, wood has its own warmth and organic vibrancy. In this piece, woods originating on opposite sides of the earth have been brought together to form a familiar patchwork motif reminiscent of a well-known breed of animal. The dark and light elements in this motif throw the complementary and opposing qualities already present in the wood into sharper relief, linking it to comparable dichotomies within the animal (and also human) realm. The three legs of the Friesian Animorph vessel are poised as if walking and arranged radially to draw the seeming energy of movement inwards to the piece and contain it. Meanwhile, the contours of the bovine belly flow upwards to form an egg-like cup. The resulting merging together of familiar, though disparate, forms and materials has been calculated to achieve a visually engaging enigma rather than merely a conundrum. The result may well be both. |
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