Metal Wall Art Variations – Unique Versions of a Design I made my first layered wood and metal wall art in the early ’90s. Since then, I’ve offered many of my designs for heat-colored metal wall art in small limited editions of seven. I do the same for some of my early saw blade designs. […]
I make a lot of my metal and wood wall art designs in small limited editions. You can commission them in custom sizes to fit a specific setting. I make them in both single and multi-layered versions; some have wooden elements. The layers are held together with hidden bolts and screws. I cut out the […]
It’s been three years since that month we kept smiling at each other and saying, ‘We have a gallery!’ Although I must say, it’s still a bit of a thrill. In 2010, a friend and I went to Haines to dismantle a 24′ redwood water tank. Three heavy trailer loads later, the lumber shed was […]
Why Creative Constraints can be an Artists Best Friend Our tendency as humans is to resist or avoid constraints. As an artist, there are times when creative constraints are a welcome thing. I was lucky to spend four summers in the ’70s with Marguerite Wildenhain at Pond Farm Pottery School. One of the valuable skills […]
Ok, this goes way back to the 90s’. When I cut the dead cherry tree to make ‘Mountain Man with Raven’ for a tall chimney wall in Linville, NC, I stashed the hollow trunk under my workshop and got busy cutting forked boards for the 50 plus pieces I had to spline and dowel together. […]
The Origins of My First Decorative Coffee Table Ideas I’ve always loved building and woodworking, but as a sculptor, it remained a side interest. My hands were full sculpting with clay, wood, and stone. When my neighbor gave me an old sawmill blade in the early ’90s, I never envisioned it as a catalyst for […]
If you’re a member of my email community, you may remember the adventure-filled move to North Carolina I mentioned, and how it rivaled our trip down the Alcan in the old school bus? This time we traveled by Uhaul truck, the biggest one available. It may also have been the most heavily loaded. After a […]
In 1984 I went back East to visit a friend from Pond Farm Pottery School. Towards the end of the trip, I spent a week in New York City visiting museums and galleries. I returned home with the sketchbook I’d carried as I roamed the city streets making sketches of New York. That winter, I […]
A PechaKucha presentation by Jeff Dean This presentation was put together for Homer’s first PechaKucha night, July 25, 2019. PechaKucha 20×20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images. Edison said genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration […]
They say art is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. That may be true, but all the perspiration in the world may count for not without some inspiration to guide the way.
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