Reclaimed Copper Artist Delivers another Custom Commission Woven copper sculpture

Posted by The Artist on November 27, 2010 · 1 Comment 

I have completed the sculpture for Jane! This commission came from Galerie Belle Ame in Eagle Idaho. I met with Jane early in Nov at her home to check out the location she would like to have one of my sculptures. Se have a number of paintings on her walls, I feel honored to be part of such a great collection of art. As we met she showed me a few of the pieces from my ART ALL OF IT page that had caught her eye. She really liked OpusTwentyFour for a number of reasons. One of the things she liked was that it has two pieces that are connected together. Jane felt that her life had two significant parts to it that though they where separate the where connected together.  I love working with clients and creating custom commissions that look deep into the desires of the customer. I also like to look at the lighting, the decor of the home and the room this piece is going to hang in.

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Playing around with a scrap I created this Christmas Ornament

Posted by The Artist on October 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

I was working on a piece I plan on submitting to the Springville Museum of Art annual Religious show (I am creating a burning bush) when one of the scraps from that piece inspired me and I created this cool piece. I think it would make a great Christmas tree ornament. I am a member of the Park City Professional Artists Association and they have an annual fund raiser where they sell ornaments. I plan on donating a few of these to them but I will also have these available at both of my galleries (District Gallery in Park City, UT and Gallerie Belle Ame in Eagle, ID) I am still working on getting my Etsy Account up and running but I think these would be perfect on there. I think these little art pieces would be great on a tree cause they would reflect light from the tree.

The first Christmas Tree Ornament I have ever created.

Another view with different lighting.

Same one different light again.

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Opus Seventy Six has new page and pictures

Posted by The Artist on May 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

In preperaqtion for the First Friday Show last week I moved OpusSeventySix outside at Rembrandt’s Coffee in EAgle Idaho. I wanted to add a few pictures. I think this piece looks great outside Let me know what you think.

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New Pictures of Opus Fifty Four from the First Friday art show at Rembrandt’s Coffee

Posted by The Artist on May 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

I had a great show last week at Rembrandt’s Coffee in Eagle Idaho. I was the Featured Artist for Galerrie Belle Ame. We had a great turn out and a lot of great feed back. I got a few new pictures of OpusFiftyFour that I took just before the show started. Hope you enjoy!

OpusFiftyFour at Rembrandt's Coffee


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You ask for it you get it!

Posted by The Artist on May 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Melissa Brodt (CEO of Galerie Belle Ame) saw my post on Facebook about the new jewelery I am going to unveil as her featured artist May 7th at the Rembrandt’s Gallery in Eagle Idaho. She wanted to know if I could make a Bangle style bracelet. OF COURSE I CAN!

We could call this the Brodt Bracelet since the inspiration came from Mellisa.


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Two new pieces OpusNinetyFour and OpusNintySix are headed to the Galerie Belle Ame for the First Friday show at Rembrandt’s

Posted by The Artist on April 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

I had a busy week end and finished two new pieces in preparation for the Galerie Belle Ame First Friday show. These two will be hanging in Rembrandt.s where I will be the Featured artist. I would love to see you all so come out and check out my art Friday May 7th.

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New Bracelets

Posted by The Artist on April 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

We I have started to make a few bracelets. At first I just wanted to be able to wair my art at my Openings and Shows. The response was so good I have started to make them and plan on having them for sale for the first time at the First Friday Show at Rembrandts and Galerie Belle Ame on May 7th. I am also thinking of a few other weaved jewelry pieces but have not got anything I want to display yet. I would love to hear your feed back on what you think about these new items.

New Bracelets


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Opus Twenty Two

Posted by The Artist on April 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

This piece has been a fun collaboration of sources. Up until this piece every piece has had copper scrap (known as drop, this is the pieces left over after flat sheets of copper are cut for flashing. Drop is good for nothing more then being taken to the recycle yard.) in fact most of my pieces have been nothing more then drop. This piece is made out of vertical copper strands which came from a re-roof project Nielco is doing.

This is the home Nielco Roofing was hired to re roof. The copper for OpusnintyTwo came from the valley metal taken out by our tear off crew.

The owner planed on scraping all of the copper himself but I worked out a deal with him (I am going to build him an art piece and he is giving me the Valley metal) so now he will scrap out the rest of the copper but not the valley. The horizontal scarp came from a fellow artist I met through my association with Galerie Belle Ame. Her name is Amber Conger and she works in found and reclaimed object sculptures.

That is Amber's work in the back ground click on Image to see more pictures of OpusEightyEight in Silverstone Gallery Meridian Idaho

I went out to meet her and see her studio last Sunday and had an interesting conversation with her about working with what she called “thin stuff”  She said she did not like it and could not understand how I focused on sheet goods. the funny thing about the conversation was that I felt the same way about the “large” objects she likes to work with.

When we got out to her shop I noticed a 3 foot wide spool of stainless steel (about a hundred feet when you roll it out. I asked her about it and reminded her how strange it seemed in light of our conversation. She told me she had picked it up a few years ago and had two more. I guess she just could not find a use for it. I offered to buy it from her and brought the first one home with me that day. I am so exited about what I can do with this new material it opens up a huge number of possibilities. THANKS AMBER!

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OpusEightyEight

Posted by The Artist on April 11, 2010 · 1 Comment 

Click on image to see more pictures of OpusEightyEight (Forground) avaliable at Silverstone Plaza Gallery,

Last night I was helping Melisa and Kaycie hang a new show for Dave Thomas at the Silverstone Plaza Gallery. Melisa made a coment about one of the pieces that she wanted to move it to a better place but she did not have anything to go in that spot. I ran out to my car and returned with OpusEightyEight. Both Melisa and Kaycie agreed that it worked well in that spot so we installed it and I took pictures. It is a great fit with my other two pieces OpusSeventyTwo and opusSeventyFour hanging on either side and Amber Congers piece as the center of the gallery (I think her work and mine compliment each other nicely).

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Opus Seventy Eight

Posted by The Artist on March 31, 2010 · 1 Comment 

This is a movement in a totally new direction for me as an artist. I have told people for a long time that my art is “art for art’s sake” and that it does not represent anything. Then I did OpusSeventyTwo

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and OpusSeventyFour

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for the Silverstone Plaza Gallery of Galerrie Belle Ame and that changed everything. These two are loose representations of Mountains. I Was Commissioned by Kristy to build a piece to hang on the out side of her cabin. She is a huge fan of lizards and asked if I could make a lizard. Since she commissioned me before OpusSeventyTwo and OpusSeventyFour my answer was. I don’t make art that represents things so no I can’t do that. Well I changed my mind (That is my prerogative as an artist LOL) and so now she will get OpusSeventyEight and as you can see it is a total representation of a lizard.

I took the finished piece in to show her (While she was cutting someones hair) and with shears still in hand and no idea I had made her a lizard she turns and points the shears straight at me and yells “OMG!!! YOU ROCK!!!” I guess she liked it LOL. I did not deliver the piece at that time because I am planing on entering it in the SMA (Springville Museum of Art) Spring Salon. If the piece passes the Jurors and gets into the show Kristy wont get her piece until some time this summer. (She is not complaining though since she will then have a piece that hung in a museum not everyone can say that about the art in their home.

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