Shoreline Project
Artist: Ron Lippold
Title: Dragon Walking Stick, 2017 walking stick with dragon handle
Medium: Bass Wood / Dimension: 58” tall
Statement: “I’ve been a Leader with Scouts Canada since 1990 and have used this walking stick for reenactments of Lord of the Rings.”
Artist: Jay Pollock
Title: Peregrine Falcon on a Rock, 2016
Medium: Peregrine: Tupelo wood block, Rock: basswood, acrylics / Dimension: 16“x 21”
Statement: Statement: “One of the world's fastest birds - power-diving from great heights and soaring through the countryside and cities alike. The Peregrine is a noble and spectacular bird of prey.”
ARTIST: George MacDonald
Title: A Dragons Tale, 2017
Medium: cottonwood bark and cherry wood / Dimensions: approximately 15" X 6"
Statement: The piece of cottonwood bark I acquired had two protruding edges that made me think of a fairy tale castle. So, I carved a castle on a rocky crag as befits a fairy tale. When I finished the carving, I thought it looked like it belonged in a fairy tale, but what's the story? A fellow carver was cutting a piece of cherry wood on the band saw and discarding small pieces as he cut out his pattern. With his permission, I gathered the pieces and thought about what I could do with them. Looking at my castle and the small pieces of cherry wood I came up with a story and proceeded to carve the head, wings, legs, feet and tail of an imaginary dragon. My dragon was near sighted and as a result not a very good flyer especially when he went out a night looking for villagers to terrorize. While doing his thing one night he met up with my fairy tale castle. His head went right through the castle and came out the other side so he is now stuck and can't get his head out. Poor guy!
Artist: Ron Richardson
Title: Going Home, 2019
Medium: Butternut wood, bees wax & floor polish / Dimension: 12” x18” (30x45cm)
Statement: “This is a carving of a South Carolina Union soldier. During the American Civil War soldiers would store food in their ‘Bummer Hats’. The carving took approximately 80 hours.”
Artist: Ernie Stronks
Title: Mythos Mountain, 2018
Medium: Bark Carving
Dimension: 21” x 12”
Artist: Victor Tapia
Title: Marble Abstract
Artist: Nikola Wojewoda
Title: The Concubine, 2015
Medium: Terracotta, slip, iron, wood, / Dimension: 8"x18"x16"
Statement: “Companion to the Mute Queen. The Concubine, in her resplendent dress, has no arms. She understands what it is, not be whole.”
Artist: Ken Maitland
Title: Cardinals, 2017
Medium: Bass wood / Dimension: 8” x 11”
Statement: “I have been carving for over twenty years. I started Bird Carving 15 years ago. These Cardinals are my first two-dimensional, picture-form project. They are drawn in pyrography, painted with acrylics and finished with a coat of varnish. This led to more works in painted pyrography, and eventually to combining two and three dimensions in painted relief carvings.”
Artist: Walter Yersh
Title: Baseball Glove, 2009
Media: Bass Wood / Dimension: 17” x 14”
Statement: “I based this carving on an advertisement in a baseball magazine, promoting the use of steroids to ball players”.
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