coppertrees

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Age: 59

Joined: Feb 2008

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Copper Trees
Chinese Wrinkle Art

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.

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