Pine Tree Studios of New England

 The design for this piece originates in a photo I took while my wife and I were enjoying the Carnaval de Quebec in the 1990s.  The perspective is from Place D'Youville looking towards the gate.  The sky was painted with a experimental technique. 1998: Cherry with black walnut base.  Polychromed with oil finish. 

  2015 Pumpkin.  

This assembly was sculpted as a gift for a family member.  The dolphin is based on a design by Bob Buyer.  The dolphin was started by the award winning sculptor Bob Guay who sadly did not finish it before he passed.  The carving was completed in the summer of 2022, was painted with watercolors and finished with polyurethane. The base is an original design executed in spalted basswood.  The base was painted with thinned acrylic, but the figure on the base is entirely natural. The dolphin is attached to the base with a birch dowel. 2022, basswood, spalted basswood, birch dowel, polychromed, polyurethane finish.  Private collection.

This sculpture entitled “Willow Chalice” is sculpted from weeping willow ( pendulous Salix babylonica ) wood literally rescued from a wood chipper.  The tree was blown down in a violent storm in the 1990’s in the village of Collinsville Massachusetts.. The piece was designed specifically as a gift from the sculptor and his family for the birthday of a friend of the family in 2022  The design, inspired by the flames of a chalice will not be used again and the sketches used to create it have been shredded. The piece was shaped using knives and gouges and is dated on the bottom and signed with the sculptor's mark, a stylized robin. 2022, approx. 6 inches tall, weeping willow wood, polyurethane finish, private collection.

This stuffed animal style lion's head is the finial for our porch flagpole.  The color and texture are a result of exposing eastern white pine to several years of New England weather. 2012 Eastern White Pine, unfinished, natural weathering. 

 Here in New England we're in meteorological spring, but another snow storm is due today.  I may not be able to rush the spring flowers, but I can make my own.  This is a pseudo-portrait of a young relative in pine.   Reclaimed Eastern White Pine. Polychromed, 2020

Based on my extended family's reaction to the last gnome, I've started a couple more with wood that M. Paul Ward gave me sometime last year. They are just about two feet tall. 2022 spalted New England Basswood, unfinished/in progress