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It has been awhile, a long while, since I have posted anything in here. The past 6 months I have been taking care of my very talented artist friend and fiancee. She had Hodgkins Lymphoma Cancer and did chemo for the last 6 months twice a week. My focus has been on her. We met more that 3 1/2 years ago. She does amazing clay sculptures and I hope to make a link to her website here when she gets it up and running. Before that time my muse has been taking a break. I haven't done a lot of big shows mostly due to the economy. I spent most of my last summer building my Taj Garage. In 2011 Kendall, my fiancee, and I went to St. Petersburg, Russia, for the Master Class Exhibition. My connection was with my gallery in LA, which I'm no longer with. It was an amazing experience and Kendall and I both have pieces on permanent display there. I'm trying to get 3 pieces back that I left with a gallery there. My blue moon piece is over there and I would really like to have it back. 

About the only thing I've done...

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Tags: driftwood, jewelry, sculpture, sea glass jewelry, vancouver washington open studio

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I have been working non-stop on my Moon Series for the last 3 months. I completed my seventh piece and found I have extra pieces from it so I am on to my 8th piece. I love the combination of copper and driftwood and the fact that I can make 2 inch pendants and go up to 10 feet for a wall sculpture in this genre. I will finish the 8th piece which will be a set with the 7th and then look at doing a Last First which will be 7 feet in diameter. I have been using a blow torch on the copper and getting great colors out of it. I have sketched some ideas and was working on a Full (moon) where I was going to fill the space in the middle with copper and when I came to that point I couldn't do it. I was told, by my muse, that it was done. I've been waiting to take a picture of it but it's spring time in the NW and has been raining for the last 2 or 3 lifetimes, which makes it easy to work inside.

 I'm very excited about showing my piece, "The...

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Tags: beatrice massa, driftwood sculpture, galerie marie-laure de lecoais au fond de la cour, moon, moon series, sculpture, wall sculpture

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I lost another friend, Juan Christian, to cancer this last October. He was a beautiful man, soft spoken, intellectual, well, well read and a great educator and a superb craftsman. I was blessed with his friendship, which took hold after his retirement from his job at the high school where I work. We visited and spoke of the world situations and basically solved them all. We kayaked on the Columbia and had a great time. The piece I dedicated to him, "Seal in Kelp," is a water piece and fitting.

Tags: driftwood, juan christian, kelp, sculpture, seal

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My friend, Jeanne Charles, died on May 9th. This is the woman whom I owe credit to for getting me started doing the driftwood sculptures. She was a fantastic art teacher at the high school where I am a counselor.She sent an email out in May of 2003 asking for driftwood because they were going to make horses. I had access to plenty of driftwood and went up to the San Juans and filled my boat full. Then loading up my truck and driving to the school I went and got her and presented my treasures. She wasn't as enthused about it as I was and I asked why. She said, "Well the horses we will be doing will only be about a foot long." I was thinking they were going to be life sized like Butterfield's out at PDX. She then said, "You can take some kids and put one together." So, I did. And it was from this experience that my muse was opened up doing these sculptures. It hit me in a deep place in my soul. It was what I wanted to do. Jeanne is gone and her energy lives on, she touched so many. Her... [More]

Tags: driftwood, jeanne charles, sculpture

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Well, it's been awhile. I just finished a great show in Seattle at the Best in the NW and will be doing a one day show in Beaverton, OR on November 22nd. I don't know if anyone has noticed but it's been a long time since I've turned out a new piece. I spent the summer and into the fall "fixing" up different pieces and dabbling into some jewelry kinda stuff. I also did the one piece "Drifting Forest" which I enjoyed but that was it. So, now is the time to start some pieces floating around and being kicked about by my muse. I'm looking at an abstract and the 3rd piece in the Cobalt Blue series and a bull. Not to mention the Cormorant drying its wings. A horse in the dowel genre. Ya, I should get started.

"The Beginning of the Cobalt Path" was sold to a wonderful man named Dale Chesnut and his wife, whose name escapes me at this time. It will be in the Tacoma, WA area displayed in a grove of trees. They own a bamboo nursery and it is a perfect place to have the energy of "The Beginning..." released. I cried when...

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Tags: andy goldsworthy, angels, art, best in the northwest, cones, coos bay, deer, driftwood, driftwood sculpture, horse race, horse sculptures, horses, museum, puyallup, rocks, san juans, sculpture, washington state fair, wood sculptures

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I had a great time, once again, at the PosterGarden where I hang on 1st Thursday's. It is really a great venue with wine, music, gourmet food and great artists like Pam Nichols and her friend Virginia. You can go to Virginia's and Pam's website at: www.razcholsartworks.com  

It was great to see some of my work buddies there like Barb Kusik, Midge Marcus and Yvonne Defreitus and her husband. I was able to show my new deer, "Seven Point," there.

Thanks to Gaynor's Automotive I was able to get my truck going again with a new engine...ouch... to take my new piece around. I am now officially a starving artist.

 "Seven Point," which I haven't had time to even take a picture of, is now at the Gresham Gallery in the City Council and School Dist. Building (Division and Eastman Parkway off Eastman on the West side of the street). They are having a theme show, "What you would see in a park," and "Seven Point" fits in quite well. There are some great paintings of nature and metal sculpture as well. There will be a reception on June 17th at the gallery which I will attend.

 

Tags: 1st thursdays, art, driftwood, driftwood sculpture, gresham gallery, pam nichols, postergarden, sculpture, wood sculpture

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Well...I'm on the backside of the PONCHO adventure. It was a fun evening and a great experience. I now have learned what it is all about and will know how to maneuver through it next year if that works out. My piece "The Journey" went up via a U-Haul trailer. I had a friend of mine, Carol Wilmoth, offer a double horse trailer and that was kind and there was just no way I could have made it in the big city of Seattle with it up and back. Going up Spring Street we hit every red light until 4th Ave. With the Carol's trailer we would have ended up in the bay. Carol also offered me a riding lesson on her horse, Jet, which I gladly took and had a chance to connect with her the weekend before PONCHO at the Quarry Ridge Stables. Vern the trainer there was quite kind in letting me hang with him during giving his lesson on the Hunters.

I was quite pleased to open the doors of the U-Haul after our trek and see "The Journey" made it unscathed from the trip up. I appreciate the boys at PONCHO, John and Greg, who helped me to...

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Tags: art, driftwood, driftwood sculpture, poncho, quarry ridge stables, san juan island sculpture park, sculpture

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Firstly, I would like to wish you all a most joyous new year.

I'm sitting in my studio with the dreary sky closing the daylight down early. I will be taking "The Beginning" up to Snohomish this weekend to the Gallery of the Arts Council of Snohomish County for a showing starting January 17 and going until February 28th. Their website is: www.artscouncilofsnoco.org 

"The Journey" will be taking a journey up to PONCHO February 23. I'm excited for it's showing, I feel it will show well and I'll be quite curious to see just how much it will go for.

I have a spiritual connection with both pieces and in many ways don't want to release them to the world. I am perfectly content with their company in my studio. And...I want them to go into the world, to carry their energy with them, my soul. With both pieces in the creation process I have been moved to tears. They have captured the very emotion and energy I was hoping to create. I absolutely love,...cherish...covet ...the connection that these pieces make with those who are open to letting  in this energy.

I am now excited to begin "Atypical" for the...

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Tags: arts council of snohomish county, drifting images, driftwood, driftwood sculpture, poncho, roche harbor, san juan island sculpture park, sculpture, westcott bay

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Found out about river living and the excitement when we get 2 inches of rain in one day on top of an already saturated soil. I had a leak in the dike that surrounds my house and garage and have been "creating" sandbags, about 7 truckloads of them. I've got it down to a science doing them by myself. My garage was flooded with about a foot of water. Didn't lose too much.

I'm currently looking forward to begin "Atypical" for the San Juan Island Sculpture Park. I have been bringing the pieces into my studio. I'm thinking about doing somethings differently than what I did with "Alert" and "November's Spike." I'll see once I get started. I'll be heading up to collect some more driftwood over the winter break and I'm looking forward to the Solstice on the 21st.

I'm holding onto my piece "The Journey" until the auction in February. I'm looking forward to the auction and still trying to find a way to transport this piece.

I will again extend my invite to any and all who would like to see "The Journey" before it goes up north. I hope all have a peaceful and joyous time...

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Tags: art, driftwood, driftwood sculpture, poncho, san juan island sculpture park, sculpture

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I would like to thank Julie Landau for a great show  last night for "First Thursday" at the PosterGarden, at 14th and Irving, in the Pearl downtown Portland. I met many great people and other artists like Ben and Todd who had booths close to me. Ben is a photographer and Todd a fellow driftwood collector. He shines them up very nicely and has some with bells.

I continue to create a piece for PONCHO and got a call from the local newspaper where they were wanting to do a blurb about "Thunder..." A little press never hurt.

I'll be going up to the San Juans soon to check out the area for the sculpture garden. They are wanting a theme piece and I'm thinking about deer and "Alert" like pieces. I will get up there and see the area.

Best to all as the sun begins to wane. If you are interested in coming over please let me know through this site. I will be glad to give you a show of my pieces.

Tags: drifting images, driftwood, driftwood sculpture, julie landau, poncho, portlands first thursday, postergarden, san juans, sculpture

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I have two pieces at the Spotted Owl Gallery in North Bend, Washington. They will be there until the "Best of the Northwest" show at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington August 17 - 19. Hope to see you there. I might even have a new piece for that show.

Tags: art, art gallery, north bend, redmond, sculpture, show, spotted owl

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Hello to all. I just finished the weekend at hangar 37 for the "Best of the Northwest Show." It was quite enjoyable and I met some great artists and people at the show. I wish I had taken e-mail addresses, especially the woman in the red shirt who returned with her husband to get a second opinion on "The Angel Miriam." If you read this I hope you get into contact with me, you are one whom I would love for you to have the piece. Talk to me... I do enjoy the children and their responses to my work. That would be especially true to the children in all of us.

I'm looking forward to Marymoor Park in August (17 - 19) and I'm hoping to show at the Issaquah Salmon Day Fest. I grew up on Lake Sammamish and think it would be great to return to the area as an artist. I will keep you all posted.

I have some pieces which my muse is telling me about: a bull; a cormorant drying its wings; two other horses; and a reconfiguration of "Success." Now that things have slowed a bit I will be able to begin on...

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Tags: andy goldsworthy, angels, art, cones, deer, driftwood, driftwood sculpture, horse race, horse sculptures, horses, madonna, rocks, san juans, sculpture, wood sculptures

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