Staying in the Game Doing stick art is challenging if you haven’t already picked up on that from previous posts. Opportunities often come up for exhibiting my art on consignment. This was one such time. A friend and fellow artist Carole that I met at Spirit...
Holding the Line in doing Stick Art Being a stick artist is challenging although I don’t think I would do anything else given the chance. Holding the Line pretty much sums up the artist life. Great ones are able to stay with it and keep expanding even though...
New collaboration with coveted Design Company- Yabu Pushelberg After over 12 years of sending my art e-mails to Yabu Pushelberg finally I got a response! When I first started doing my art work I was pretty naive and fearless calling and forming relationships with well...
Life’s accidents and discovering Adi Da Thinking a lot lately about my life and how one small “accident” or happenstance can change the entire course of one’s life. Here is the story of one of the main serendipitous moments in my life. I moved...
Some of the most gratifying moments as an artist have been my stick art collaborations with talented and generous architect Fu Tung Cheng at Cheng designs. Fu Tung is able and willing to design on the fly. My job as an artist is to take his ideas and make them come to...
Creating new stick art and being inspired by other’s work Sometimes my art can become uninspired and by the book. Making money on tried and true options takes over and spontaneous art gets kicked to the curb. As I am writing this I can see I am in the latter...
My favorite interior designers I’m fascinated with interior design. I love to see the work of established designers and up–and–coming ones. Here are a few of my favorites: Yabu Pushelberg, one of the legends of design in my opinion. Their interior design is so...
“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.”
