OPEN STUDIOS TOUR 2020

Spring Open Studio Tour 2020

Thanks to Vic Kirby for the photograph

Gallery has Oil painting, natural sculptures and Fine Photography Black and White

Nature Sculpture Exhibition

Nature Sculpture - Togetherness 2019

Flying Vessel

Sails: Flax handmade paper with indigo 

Banana leaf sails

Palm Boats

Vessel Series

Seek the eternal in the present,

Seek the past and the future,

Link them with the direction of your course,

For you are

You are, 

You are the vessel.

Palm Boats

The Palm Boats utilize natural materials, and each one is as unique as nature. 

I was inspired to make them after creating an elephant from a palm leaf trunk awhile back. Coco palms are quite benevolent plants. In the past they were used for many things. I noticed the beautiful pods, which produce growing coconuts and thought to create canoes out of them. One thing led to another, so now there are an array of sailing vessels... 'dream vessels' perhaps...

Sails are made with linen flax, bark, cotton and/or indigo dyed handmade paper. Perota wood oiled with linseed create a foundation for most of them. Additional rocks, shells, stems, pods, wooden buttons, seaweed, willow, jute, waxed thread or small driftwood pieces may be used.