Female bust
This sculpture from reclaimed Eastern White Pine was a lamination experiment. Each laminated layer was cut to shape to both reduce waste and time to rough out the sculpture. Eastern White Pine, polyurethane finish, August 2021.
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This work was based on an original by M. Paul Ward. The half-finished piece languished in a drawer for years. I recently came across the piece and selected to complete it for a show next month. Butternut, polyurethane finish, August 2021.
Mermaid relief
This Eastern White Pine board was in the basement of my childhood home for decades and I discovered a couple years before the house was sold. The exterior of the rough-sawn block was very tough and there was a huge knot in it. I had been looking to do a large relief when an acquaintance shared a sketch she had made. I loved the position and it fit the size of that old block, but the knot went through the legs and would have made that part of the carving impossible. I then realized that if I changed the subject into a mermaid, I could work around the knot. Eastern White Pine, polyurethane finish, July 2021.