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

Sunday, September 2, 2012

New Miniature Rustic Cup at Greenleaf Art Center in Chicago Sunday, September 9 from 1 to 4pm

Miniature Rustic Twig Cup with Whipped Cream and a Cherry on Top by George C. Clark
 (height to top of cherry 3.5 inches}    AVAILABLE 

This miniature cup handcrafted from bark, twigs, seed pods, glue and paint is one of over 40 artist-made cups on exhibit and for sale at bargain prices at the opening of the Artists Breakfast Group CAFFEINE VI exhibition next Sunday, September 9, from 1 to 4pm.  Cups purchased at the opening can be taken home right away by buyers.  The paintings, graphics and sculptures in the show are for sale too, but they will have to stay in the gallery until the exhibition closes October 6.

CAFFEINE VI will be at the Greenleaf Art Center at 1806 W. Greenleaf Avenue in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood.  Gallery hours are 11am to 4pm Monday through Friday, and 11am to 2pm Saturday and Sunday,  I will post one of the two small figure paintings I will have in CAFFEINE VI on my "Drawings and News" blog at georgecclarkdrawings.tumblr.com, but I should warn you that that blog is NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

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