If you wonder what I’ve been working on lately, this is where you need to be – my Brand New Work. Some of these might have been finished a while ago, maybe have been at a distant show and now returned or never before seen.
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“Spikey Duo”
A pair of unmatched lidded boxes meant for candy or something smallish — it’s 12x11x6”—that you can see from the outside. The bigger dish is covered with a carved and pierced lid that lets in a dappled light that gives just a hint of what’s inside: a note, a deed, chocolates, jewelry, badges. The smaller dish is oblong and topped with a crystal clear acrylic lid with a polished aluminum knob. It’s for M&M’s, redhots, Neccho disks…
Big Leaf Maple grows on the West side of Washington/Oregon and its burls are well known to ‘turners’. The dramatic outside spikes are what’s left of yearling branches that don’t live more than a few months. The tree smothers these newbie twigs and, over time, grows over and incorporates them as the tiny blackish brown dots that you see inside in the overhead pic.
“J’Aime les Fleurs” The first Garden Angel ‘24 is out greeting the Hellebores and crocuses this morning in the daylight savings sunrise. NPR is doing the news of the day and it’s finally above 32 and the frost is fading on my windshield. Remember the summer angels, the ones that have a floppy hat and bouquet rather than a halo? At 22”, she’s tall and made from quilted maple lacquered, lathe-turned, waxed, signed.
“Yakima Hop Cones”
Larson gallery showed this candy dish at the Central Washington Artists Exhibit show – November / December 2023. ~ Sold~