Natural Sculptures

The timber finds me. I walk past a fallen branch, a weathered log, a piece of driftwood shaped by years of rain and sun — and I know. Nature has already done most of the work.

I never paint the natural timber. Each piece already carries its own colour, its own grain, its own markings — shaped by nature, weather, water, by time itself. My job is to find what's already there and build around it, not over it. To reveal, not impose.

The materials I work with are specific to this place and this practice — driftwood, reclaimed timber, pandanus from the Far North Queensland rainforest with its layered honey-toned fibres and its curve that no hand could replicate. To these I add what the timber asks for: handmade mushrooms shaped one by one, preserved moss, raw crystals, miniature creatures, integrated light.

Some have lights, some don't need them and some are perfectly preserved that way nature intended.

Every piece is one of a kind. Every piece began as something found. What it became is entirely its own.