COLLECTION
Original works and limited edition prints, each created with intention.
The Flight
A bird breaks across a mountain valley, wings spread against open sky. The composition follows the natural shape of a two-piece burl slab, with live bark edges framing the landscape on all sides.
The burning took approximately 45 hours, building depth through layered tonal work across the mountain range, tree line, and the bird's individual feathers. The wood's grain carries the movement of the river through the lower third of the piece.
The Flight
River King
A grizzly stands chest-deep in moving water, a fresh catch held firmly in its jaws. The vertical grain of the red cedar carries the current through the lower third of the piece, blurring the boundary between the burned image and the natural wood.
The bear's coat required the most sustained work, building density through hundreds of individual strokes to separate wet fur from dry, shadow from highlight. The lighter heartwood of the cedar provided the structure for the water's surface and the fish's scales, allowing the natural color variation to do what an additional medium would in a painting.
River King
Dr. Hoo
Dr. Hoo
An owl stares out from a round of spalted cottonwood, its wide eyes centered within the wood's natural shape. The spalting lines running through the surface become part of the feather pattern, blurring the line between what was burned and what the wood brought to the piece on its own.
The compact scale required a different kind of precision. Every detail of the face, from the concentric rings around each eye to the layered plumage beneath the beak, had to hold at close range. The bark edge remains intact around the full circumference, framing the subject the way the wood grew rather than the way a saw would cut it.
