DriftwoodArt

BEACHCOMBING!!!!!!!

The Wild West Coast beaches of Aotearoa (NEW ZEALAND)

Native New Zealand woods such as Rata, Supplejack, Kowhai, Rimu, and many more are washed down west coast rivers to the Tasman sea where they are sculptured and shaped by the wave action and the stones and eventually left near the high tide mark.

It is my pleasure to walk along these beautiful wild shores looking for the pieces which grab my attention, and taking them back to my workshop.

Using saws, drills, sanders, stainless steel, epoxy resin and paints———these are crafted by the imagination into forms and shapes, which are whimsical, elegant and often amusing!

Rob Barrer (the Artist) is also a member of the well known New Zealand Indie band SILVERWOODSTUDIO !

you can access the music and more artworks at www.silverwoodstudio.net

SILVERWOODSTUDIO won 3 Awards this year for top song in 3 genres——World Music
Ambient Music
Live Performance

nominated by fellow musicians from the IAIA?

Life is characterised by the constant and often surprising appearance of the new.
Whether we contrive it or not, want it or not; something new is always happening (often imperceptibly, in our everyday lives).
At the end of the day something transpired that we didn’t anticipate at the beginning.
The same occurs in life.
This notion of newness (and fatality) means that the new is always attended by a loss; something falling away at the centre, the same time as something new is born.