Wood Sculpture

Wood: Moreton Bay Fig (from New Farm Park)

Dimensions: 79x45x40cm

Artist Statement:  I like to show the beauty hidden in our trees and employ that beauty to work in the design of my sculptures. This sculpture was inspired after attending the ‘Flamenco Fire’ dance presentation at QPAC in 2012. I was totally captivated by the passionate movements of the dancer, her dress and shawl as she twisted and turned to the tempo of the music.

Wood: Moreton Bay Fig

Dimensions: 36 x 46 x 28cm (approx.)

Artist Statement: The wood from this 120-year-old Moreton Bay fig, is part of Brisbane’s heritage. As Brisbane’s transport depends on horsepower in all manner of shapes and forms, be it a horse drawn carriage of by-gone years or today’s modern cars driving through tunnels, they all depend on some form of horse power. With this in mind, and the majestic form of the horse and that of the mature Moreton Bay Fig tree I created and named this sculpture, “Horsepower” to preserve the history of this iconic tree. 

Wood: Moreton Bay Fig

Dimensions: 75 x 30 x 30cm

Artist Statement: This sculpture was made for the G20 exhibition 'Expressions in Sculpture' and reflects the albatross, a bird that flies with grace to great distances while in harmony with its environment, sourcing food to bring back to nourish its young.  Similarly, the G20 Heads of State from all over the world are flying great distances Down Under to try and make the world a better place for future generations. 

Wood: Mango

Dimensions: 58x33x33cm

Artist Statement:  I saw the form of the female body in this tree trunk and I just had to release her from where she was hiding and show how beautiful she is.

Wood: Olive

Dimensions: 94 x 20 x 15cm

Artist Statement: As a physiotherapist for all my working life I have developed a great appreciation of form and movement of the human body. Combining this appreciation together with the inherent beauty found only in wood, the viewer’s visual and tactile experience is elevated into a higher realm. ‘She’ personifies the ultimate perfection and beauty of the female form.

Awards: 2015 Second Prize - Nundah Village Art Competition

Wood:  Hairy Oak

Dimensions:47 x 22 x 18 cm

Artist Statement: The beauty of the human body is always a challenge to capture as is the passion of two lovers displayed by the ‘dress’ base that has fallen to the ground in the heat of passion.

Wood: Stained Moreton Bay Fig

Dimensions: 58 x 23 x 22cm

Artist Statement:  We all know that everything living dies. However I like to extend the life of trees and our memories by using the timber from trees to make sculptures that will extend the life of our trees, and rekindle those memories of by gone days when we strolled along a beach. 

Wood: Jacaranda

Dimensions: 34 x 94 x 46cm

Artist Statement: It always gives me pleasure watching seabirds effortlessly fly, soaring the thermals. This sculpture also was inspired by the music ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ by Neil Diamond.

Wood: Jacaranda

Dimensions: 78 x 34 x 34cm

Artist Statement: Blending the wave into the boat is my interpretation of the exhilaration felt when the boat is lifted onto a wave and becomes one with the wave. It is a 'bucket list' joy to experience.

Wood: Australian Red Cedar

Dimensions: 36 x 35 x 23cm

Artist Statement: The ocean is a huge source of inspiration for me and I’m always fascinated when watching waves roll in and become ripples which then expose the shells.

Wood: Australian Red Cedar

Dimension: 60 x 40 x 30cm

Artist Statement: The sea inspires many of my sculptures. This is reflected here with the movement of the waves , the diving of seabirds and the leaping of whales out of the ocean. By fusing these elements in the one sculpture I endeavour to show how the two environments, the air and the sea, and all that lives in and on them are closely inter-connected.

Wood: Jacaranda

Dimensions: 75 x 35 x 35cm

Artist Statement: This sculpture reflects the joys I experienced when sailing; watching the bow slice through the waves and the exhilaration I felt as the boat ‘lifted her skirts’ and surged down the face of the wave.

Wood: Poinciana and black stain

Dimensions: 70 x 35 x 30cm

Artist Statement: The bond of a mother and child transcends all boundaries. The sculpture focuses on the bond, of a mother and the child that was inside her; the child she held close to her heart; it will always be part of her. This deep primal maternal love that she feels inside her is always with her…like a shadow in her heart. 

Wood: Australian White Cedar

Dimensions: 80 x 30 x 30cm

Artist Statement: I am always enchanted by the freedom of birds as they gracefully glide, twist and turn in the air.

Wood: Jacaranda

Dimensions: 43 x 35 x 15cm

Artist Statement: The look of love depicts that wonderful aura of two people totally captivated in each others spell, in love, oblivious to all around.