I love line and shape that makes me wonder and feel the mystery of existence. In the art world it is more rare that artwork has shape and geometry. Most time static square or rectangle shapes with colors are used to create interest. As I have done stick art over the...
Martis Camp project with Zirbel Architecture near Truckee California. Design by Sanctuary Design and Sophia Cok. One of the challenges of doing Organic stick art is to find who and where your clients are! Being that I gracefully live near the Lake Tahoe area,...
Making stick art and natural lighting requires constant refinement! Is how I am doing things good enough? Do the materials work? Do they bend? Does the finish work perfectly? And so on and so on…. There have been so many...
Driftwood wall sculpture made by David Ward Stick artist This is a new stick art piece incorporating driftwood from many hours of beach combing on beautiful Northern California beaches and then installed in Santa Monica near Malibu in a beautiful beach cottage...
Here is the first stick art panel of a 10 panel series for a Catskills restaurant called Nest. Each project has a creative feeling and direction of it’s own. Even if I have ideas going in they will all be unique and spontaneous. Grateful to have this amazing...
Here is my fortuitous chicken coop studio. It is out in the rolling hills above the Yuba River in Grass Valley. Cows are my only neighbors. Plenty of space to store sticks and whatever else to do with my work with natural materials. I took my mother in law and wife...
Had a chance recently do do a natural materials wall sculpture for well known interior designer Jamie Bush for a Tahoe project in Martis Camp. Many sketches and ideas were passed back and forth. And as I live 1 hour from Tahoe I thought this is perfect! Turns out the...
I received an e mail yesterday from a large art advisory firm Kalisher Art. They are considering me to do a big installation of spheres based on an inspiration of a Polish artist who did a floating bubble grouping. This picture is so inspiring! I think all art...
Service as a transcendental act and what is Sacred Art We do a lot of service. I live on a spiritual Sanctuary which is 88 acres and there is a lot to do. I have been developing and expanding our landscaping as well as enlarging a holy site we have here. It is the...
How David got his start as a natural materials/ stick artist David Ward’s original career was as a landscape contractor. While trimming fruit trees he would end up with a truck load of fresh, perfectly straight suckers or shoots to find a use for. He loved to...
“David Wards delicate assemblages of twigs and branches are the perfect complement to the environments of Cheng Design.
He has a passion and sensitivity for making his art appropriate to the project. Our collaborations have rewarded us, as well as our clients, with wall pieces, light fixtures, and garden elements all done with subtle restraint and quiet exuberance.”
