Showing posts with label wood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wood. Show all posts
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
BEAUTY: Sculpture AND Furniture Design
Sculptor Casey McCafferty works in many mediums but, seeing as I am interior designer, I am drawn to his wood sculpted chairs and benches that are truly works of art. The sense of them is at once tribal, futuristic, organic, and prehistoric. His larger sculptures would look great in the corner of a large living room too...
https://www.casey-mccafferty.com/
https://www.casey-mccafferty.com/
Friday, January 31, 2025
BEAUTY: Sculpture--Matias Karsikas
Finnish artist Mataias Karsikas' compelling series Rykelmä features a fantastic juxtaposition of wood with glass and ceramic. His Artist Statement explains:
"In the artworks titled Rykelmä, glazed ceramics and mouth-blown glass meet nature-shaped wood. The ceramics are mineral-like, the glass is pouring, and the wood is untreated. Instead of portraying figures and landscapes, abstract textures and diverse surfaces are drawn from nature, thus manifesting the essence of the natural world. The visual starting point for the pieces has been, for example, slime molds that grow in clusters on the surfaces of decaying trees. The viewer can perceive in the works the resin-dripping branch of a tree or the melting of a frost covered moss under the spring sun."
He sells pieces on his site!
https://matiaskarsikas.com/
"In the artworks titled Rykelmä, glazed ceramics and mouth-blown glass meet nature-shaped wood. The ceramics are mineral-like, the glass is pouring, and the wood is untreated. Instead of portraying figures and landscapes, abstract textures and diverse surfaces are drawn from nature, thus manifesting the essence of the natural world. The visual starting point for the pieces has been, for example, slime molds that grow in clusters on the surfaces of decaying trees. The viewer can perceive in the works the resin-dripping branch of a tree or the melting of a frost covered moss under the spring sun."
He sells pieces on his site!
https://matiaskarsikas.com/
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
BEAUTY: Sculpture--Julian Watts
I can't look away from the amazing work of sculptor and woodworker Julian Watts. His bio sums it up:
"Julian Watts combines traditional wood carving techniques with an experimental sculptural approach to explore the formal and conceptual intersections between the human body, the landscape, and the functional objects that we interact with everyday. This approach has continued to evolve, expanding to incorporate an entire ecosystem of abstract, biomorphic wood carvings, ranging from bowls, to furniture, to largescale, purely sculptural pieces."
These pieces are so satisfying to gaze upon, as one's eye travels and feels the biomorphic and anatomical forms.
Top to bottom: Curve; Feelers; Hole Bowl; Joined Shape; Moon; Poke; Tree; Utensils; a selection of vases; Wall Collection (50); Watts with some of his work
https://www.julianwattsstudio.com/
"Julian Watts combines traditional wood carving techniques with an experimental sculptural approach to explore the formal and conceptual intersections between the human body, the landscape, and the functional objects that we interact with everyday. This approach has continued to evolve, expanding to incorporate an entire ecosystem of abstract, biomorphic wood carvings, ranging from bowls, to furniture, to largescale, purely sculptural pieces."
These pieces are so satisfying to gaze upon, as one's eye travels and feels the biomorphic and anatomical forms.
Top to bottom: Curve; Feelers; Hole Bowl; Joined Shape; Moon; Poke; Tree; Utensils; a selection of vases; Wall Collection (50); Watts with some of his work
https://www.julianwattsstudio.com/
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