Explorations.
It all begins with a thought: What if …?
I love playing with materials, metal in particular, and learning their personalities. These are some of my experiments with materials, form, color, and texture. It’s a work in progress and also a catalog of the progression in my work.
Several of the forms and finishes are either informed or guided by my friends and mentors, Greg Wilbur, Glenn Gardner, and Kristin Mitsu Shiga.
Mini Sculptures
Most of these pieces are explorations inspired by the work of Greg Wilbur. They are made from minimally modifed off-cuts from other projects that serve as a design constraint. The colors are natural heat patinas expressed by the copper.
Trinket Dishes
I use trinket dishes as a warm-up exercise of sorts. They help develop the motor skill for consistent repetetive hammer blow the make up the patterns. Most of the trinket dishes are coated with a clear enamel and the rest have a heat patina of some kind. The objective here is to expose color that the copper can proroduce with the selective and judicious application of heat.
Vessels and Containers
These vessels are exercises in conventional raising. The exterior color comes from a variety of patinas, both chemical and heat. Any visible silver is a tin coating to make the vessels food safe.
