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Bones Cabin & Friends, ARTEXPO22!

Please save the date: September 23rd-25th 2022

The Beginnings of Things

Most of my new pieces for the show started as, or were suggested by, found or gifted objects

The beginnings of things

Is that the hardest part? 

A journey of a thousand miles, starting with a single step, is true, of course it is, but it doesn't address the the initial problem of direction, and the feelings we may have of inertia, of not starting the journey because we know we could well be starting off in the wrong direction, and so, in fact, we don't head off at all

'Thank you', then for found objects, and the shortcut they offer as to direction as you start the thousand mile journey, in the pursuit of whatever it is, and whatever it is that sculpture 'is'  

That's me, at any rate, and, if Lady Luck smiles, it's something like auto pilot after that, and I can bish bosh through the other thousand miles of the journey with the enthusiasm of a Jack Russel, and the piece, the piece of sculpture or piece of work, runs away, almost as if it's under its own steam, as soon as the found object has found its way

The snooker table legs that are now the totamic 'Snookered', are here via a chance encounter with a friendly electrician 

Ta very much, Dave Cokey Lewis, my neighbour here at Pentre Higgen Farm, for the oak bole that led, eventually, to 'Riven Piece', below

Thanks too, for some old school chairs, those ones with the bottom shaped insets in the seat part. that led to this mobile piece below:

The Moon in a Boat finished itself at speed once the direction given from curved elm had been clocked and investigated 

I remember writing something a couple of years ago about how it felt to be an artist, about how it felt, on a good day, to be a bit like being a rascally private detective, but instead of, say, a missing person, the quest is form itself.

In the case of the piece above, 'way led on to way', to slightly misquote from Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken', and the piece romped along and evolved like an episode of The Rockford Files

I loved every stage of the work, and am pleased to report, that on a breezy day she spins just like a weather vane should!

Please save the date: September 23rd-25th 2022

There's some general stuff about the show, along with directions and that on the previous post, if you scroll down a bit from here