I make my furniture from twigs and Lake Michigan driftwood, shells, stones, bark, seed pods and other natural materials. The challenge is to fabricate objects that require a certain form and symmetry, like chairs, for example, out of materials that are by nature randomly and organically shaped. I seek out the gnarliest twigs and pieces of driftwood, the curved, forked or twisted ones, because they make the most interesting furniture. No two of my chairs are ever alike in construction, although they are all identical in function. They embody the spirit of rustic design by using found or natural materials instead of manufactured ones, and at the same time evoke the many folk tales and legends of the little people of the forest. I have a lot of fun making them.

The little tables' tops are 5 inches above the surface they are standing on, and the chairs are scaled in proportion to that size.

You can email me at gcc@georgecclark.com

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Come see me at INDEPENDENCE PARK in Chicago Sunday, May 1st

I will be showing and selling my newest collection of miniature rustic twig furniture at the Fine Craft Fair held Sunday, May 1 from 12:30 to 4:00pm in the Independence Park Field House at 3945 N. Springfield on the Northwest Side of Chicago (located just south of Irving Park Road one block east of Pulaski Road).  I will have a couple of new "critters" in the show, and I will post pictures of a driftwood Mutant Bunny as soon as I get him photographed.
Thirty Chicago area artists and craftspeople will be showing work in many media including jewelry, glass, fiber arts, and ceramics.
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