Miniature Rustic Twig Furniture by George C. Clark: Buy Them at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art Art4Sale Event October 21 to 23, 2011

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

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Buy Them at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art Art4Sale Event October 21 to 23, 2011

Miniature Rustic Twig and Birchbark Drum Table and Driftwood Twig and Seashell Armchair by George C. Clark
(Table height 5 inches)

Miniature Rustic Driftwood Twig Chairs and Refectory Table by George C. Clark
(Table height 5 inches)

My miniature rustic twig furniture will be featured along with the work of 80 other artists from across the nation at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art's Art4Sale event the weekend of October 21-23. The exhibition will be free and open to the public those days. There will be a Preview Party the evening of Thursday, Oct. 20, for which there will be an admission charge. You can read all about it on the Museum's website. I will be showing 3 tables, 5 chairs, a settee and a garden bench, including those shown on this post.