coppertrees
Profile
A local artist in Oregon who hand crafts each sculpture using copper. Her surroundings and travels have inspired her to create trees of various species and sizes, each with its own distinctive character. 
The roots of some wrap around stones or other natural materials gathered from across the Oregon landscape. Others are firmly planted in pots collected from many travels,throught the U.S. and Asia.
She started drawing at about five, encouraged by Grandparents, and spent quite a bit of time trying different subjects. School provided art classes, and it became more then a hobby.
Grandmothers taught their arts, which were many hand crafts arts from basket weaving to tatting hand arts almost lost in some places, Macramé’, leather braiding, pottery.
Studing with jewelry designers and working with gold, silver and stones, and gems, all the shinny bobbles, but still had limits at the time.

“The art of the tree is pure, no boundaries in their form, no color denied.”
“When I pick up the wire I feel the day and the twisting begins. I will sit it up and look at it, sometimes imagine sitting under it looking up to see what is there.”
It takes 100 hours to complete one tree, they grow in her hands sometimes they change shape from the original thought. What ever they take in shape, you see in Nature only greater. 
The hard part is the leaves, working on new ideas every day to fill that order, but leaves are hard to twist. This takes the most time to make and is the assigning name of the tree, so can be very important since there is no color except copper.
The business was named after her Grandson and family name, Bodies Trees .
Art has always been a first Love and being inspired by so many has gone back to her art in all mediums.
All Origional art work can be purchased through the artist.—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-——- Copyright notice:
All rights reserved. All images and writings contained on these pages are © copyright protected by Vickie Bodie and any use of these images in any form without written permission will be considered an infringement of these copyrights.
http://www.freewebs.com/bodiestrees/







Groups
coppertrees hosts Art and Stories Made For Children and is a member of 1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture, Complex Simplicity of Art, 1 In The Beginning - Ancient Practices, A Novel Idea, Abstract Art, All Things Orange, Art Inspired by Dreams, Artists of the Orient, Challenge Café, Collaboral Damage, Colour Me Vibrant Red!, Creative Inspirations, Designers United, Drawing Day, Ebony and Ivory, Exotic Mammals, Fantasy Art, Fine Arts, Flash Fiction, friends of redbubble, Gaia - The Living Planet, Graphic Arts, Graphic Editing 101, Green!, Group Competitions, Happy Haven, Inspired Art, Japanfluence, Live, Love, Dream, Mature Woman, Mixed Media, Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales, NORTHWEST ARTISTS (U.S.), Out of the Blue, Out of the Past, Pacific Northwest Art, Painters In Modern Times, Pencil Drawing, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Practising the Dark Arts, Primates, Psychedelic Art & Design *TAG YOUR IMAGE!*, Purple Haze, Realist Traditional Art, Selective Coloring, Simply White, Something Fishy, Textures and Materials, The Art of 3D, The Drawing Board, The Eyes Have It, The Healing Journey, The Sculptinators, Twisted Tales, Underground USA, United States, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Video Montage Group, Watercolour Paintings, Woman Appreciation, Yellow Fever and You're Accepted.
Journal Entries
Featured in The Healing Journey
Posted 2 days ago, 25 comments so far.
Featured in Exotic Mammals
Posted 5 days ago, 7 comments so far.
To All of the Wonderful People Here
Posted 8 days ago, 8 comments so far.
Rising Sold
Posted 17 days ago, 17 comments so far.
City Blue to Nancy Fisher
Posted about 1 month ago, 10 comments so far.
Artists and Writers Unite
Posted about 1 month ago, 14 comments so far.
Thank you
Posted about 1 month ago, 6 comments so far.
Many thanks again
Posted about 1 month ago, 8 comments so far.
Red Bubble you have made my day
Posted about 1 month ago, 28 comments so far.
Changing the Icon
Posted 2 months ago, 2 comments so far.
Art
Writings
Empty Faces
Between the dark and the light
Join Us -WORLD CHILDRENS DAY CARD CONTEST
I know there are many artists whos skill could add to the Children Day Event. / Create a card for the kids,They need all of our support.
Voices of the Endangered
When through the silence of the night / Through the shadows of moonlight / Will you search to hear my plea?
Meshas Poem
Bears that sing opera, Owls with crossed eyes,dogs with lace stichen
Sparrowhawk, Brownie and Crow
Crow, seen sparkle in the distance, stumbling over an arrowhead crashed into Sparrow hawk prowling, bumped into Brownie who fell on his Brown nose.
Talebearers' Tales- Shadow Talk
As they walked, he spoke of the earth, as if she was walking alongside of them, gently speaking to teach the man














