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David Lewellyn

Visual Artist: Furniture - Visual Artist: Jewelry - Visual Artist: Paintings - Visual Artist: Photography - Visual Artist: Sculpture/Pottery

About the artist:
One action leads to another action; therefore every action presents a question, and every answer is its resolve. Being an artist is having a lifestyle of questions and answers. From that I learn more about interacting with my chosen media.
For the last several years I have primarily been focusing on sticks that have been chewed by a beaver and then discarded. By studying the animal, its behavior and environment, I have tried to mimic their efforts while building with the same material. I consider my beaver chewed artwork to be 3-dimensional drawings and the sticks are their lines. I enjoy exploring new mediums and am constantly searching out new ways to create art. When I find a medium I enjoy, I thoroughly delve into it while incorporating the knowledge that I have learned from past projects in different mediums. When I work, my process is an affair that consists of direct assembly and construction with whatever medium I’m investigating.
Each piece consists of simple geometric shapes that when combined create abstract forms. I enjoy the duality that comes with being aesthetic and utilitarian; teetering the scales of form versus function. The repetitive use of mainly one material may suggest a minimalist modern feel, but the design generally implies abstraction. The fact that it is made of sustainable material is contemporary.
I desire dialogue visually with my audience that upcycling, whatever the medium, can be fundamentally satisfying in this age of high technology. Today things go so fast; I create artwork that looks very busy and high speed, and is possibly a reflection of our life. However, the medium is grounded outside of the high technology spectrum and brings me, and my audience, back to nature. As a seed sprouts, and the sapling grows into a tree, the tree becomes food and shelter, is later discarded, rediscovered, upcycled, and reinvented.