Furniture | Boot Bench
The bench is made of recycled materials. The seat is repurposed from a workout bench. The legs are made from standing dead aspen. Each one is about 4" wide; they have been planed and joined together on their shared inside surface. The surface of the aspen is polished by wind and snow at an elevation of 10,000 feet above sea level; the resulting surface is what you see here, a natural bone color, streaked with pale oranges, yellows and grays. This table has unvarnished legs, but I usually varnish them and buff them with soft abrasives to create a matte finish. Costs vary depending on how the seat is made or found. I can work with your repurposables.
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I am an artist and designer. I create paintings, sculpture, and architectural components. As a designer for a variety of clients, I have worked in numerous materials over the years, from paper, canvas and panel to wood, iron, steel, aluminum, glass and bronze. I am very comfortable with the design process and communicating with my clients so that they achieve what they want.
My oil paintings have covered a variety of subjects over the years from landscape to abstractions. In recent years I have been exploring architecture in my paintings, ranging from structural steel during construction to deco movie theaters in small towns.
My sculpture has been rooted in painted wood abstractions that often include metal found objects, and glyph of my own design.
I have created architectural components both for clients and for myself. My client work has included glyphs in aluminum, bronze, slate, glass, stucco and wood. Work on my own cabin has included trim in natural aspen, window frames with glyphs, and cabinetry in twig and natural aspen.
My training includes not only fine art and its history but also the design traditions of the late nineteenth-century craft movements of Europe and America; the Vienna Werkestette; the early-20th-century modernist movements of Russia, Germany and Holland; and the vernacular architecture in eastern Europe, Russia, and Scandinavia. I also hike a lot in the western U.S., which has shown me first-hand the vernacular architecture of the gold camps and the desert Native Americans. My artistic goal is to synthesize these traditions of formal and vernacular design into a style that expresses the modern west.
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