Dangers of Flying

Dangers of Flying......Glass Stingray, copper, bronze octopus

Divide and Conquer

              Divide and Conquer......or...... when you need to be in more than one place at a time....

Copper, bronze octopus

Made from flat copper....hard to exactly predict where the curl will end up!

They're back where they belong.

 Re-installed (an alcove in a residential spa) after some minor repair and an extraordinary remodel of their former home. I hated to see them go.

Windows from 27 years ago!?!....

Just finished repair work on three (2 1/2 x 5 ft ea. ) stained glass windows that I created and fabricated.... 27 years ago! That sure sounds like a long time! A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. I don't think I would have the patience to draw and fabricate these today. No stress cracks! All breakage was externally applied and now repaired. 

Drapery glass as much as an inch thick was used in the tulip tree blossoms, lotus blossoms, and waterfall which made soldering the backside of these panels a real pain.

After taking a year off to move and build a new studio.....good to be back working with glass.....a new installation on the outer banks in Hatteras Village.....

Stingrays......New colors

Stingrays know..... "no boundaries"

Just a few studio shots of playing with perspective and reality.....trying to make them look like they are coming through the wall.

Off the wall Stingrays

Small jade stingray, medium turquoise ray, and large teal ray

Oasis of Carnivora

 The sound of water rippling attracts one and all. The flytrap waits patiently as the water springs forth luring us to it’s lush oasis. Now on display at the 2014 Sculpture in the Garden Show, UNC Botanical Gardens, Chapel Hill, NC

                                                 

http://sculptureinthegarden.com/

6ft x 4.5ft x 4.5ft

Octopus and Stingrays found new amazing home. Now hanging in sunny Florida.

This piece now hangs in a wonderful setting in Satellite Beach, Florida. The ceiling is an amazing 32 ft. high which proved problematic in hanging it attractively. The first floor is 15 ft. tall...with 8 1/2 ft doors.....made for basketball players maybe?!? 

Flat copper sheet was hand formed to create the octopus and tails for the stingrays. The rays were created by fusing crushed colored glass onto a clear stingray shaped background glass sheet in a kiln at 1500 degrees. Sometimes several firings are required to achieve the desired coloring. Then the flat stingray glass blank is placed back in the kiln and balanced on a hand formed steel stingray mold which I created in different sizes and reheated to 1250 degrees. This lower heat causes the glass to relax and slump onto the steel form but not enough to get to a liquid state and drip off the mold. The "ship in the bottle is real, made the traditional way by an artist from Charlotte, NC using wood from the real ship depicted in the bottle. 

The Harmonic Symbiosis Vorticity Gateway

The Harmonic Symbiosis Vorticity Gateway....

The relationship between nature’s wildlife that coexist daily with us humans is harmonically aligned and a threshold or gateway is established when this chime is activated. A harmonic vortex surrounds the threshold, swirling the Lilly pads and water plants and aligning us with all the wildlife existing close by.

7ft. x 2.5ft x 2.5ft

New Bern Art Works and Co. "No Boundaries Vessels" show

The "No Boundaries Vessels" exhibit entry (4ftx5ftx5ft). Join us for the friday the 13th Art Crawl in New Bern, NC as 18 artists display over 50 creative vessels.

NC Botanical Garden 2013 Sculpture Show entry

This show opens Friday September 20th and runs thru December at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens located in Chapel Hill, NC.

Venusian Arboresque

(kinetic top)

                                                NC Botanical Gardens entrance