Barbara's Art

I've been working as a sculptor since a visit to Jamaica in 1999 when I learned how to carve wood.  Now I do huge pieces for parks and have taught wood carving at Bryn Mawr College and Oberlin College.  Below is a huge 200 year old tree, 10 feet tall lying down, that I carved for the Avondale Forest Park in Rathdrum, County Wicklow, Ireland. The mural is 4'x14'.  The Greenman face is on the other side of the tree from the mural.  It is a Shrine to the Rainforest - the man on the left represents things made from trees and the Goddess on the right represents all the food and medicine we get from trees. As well as oxygen, etc.  Huge fungi on the tree let out clouds of spores that looked like smoke.  I only had hand chisels with me.

Angel corbels for a fireplace, carved out of alder, 5 feet tall.

Jizo, Bodhisatva, 6 feet tall out of cedar for the Zen Mountain Center in California.

Mother and child, 5 feet tall, 

Fortuna with cornucopia, 6 feet tall, maple, part of a goddess circle.

Below:  Nine foot tall    commemorate the women fire firefighters who make up 10% of the fire fighting force.  I was 71 at time.

Quan Yin, 4 feet tall, catalpa wood carved for the Sebastopol Zen Center, California.

Earth Goddess, 60 feet long land art, shoveled and raked out of the Sonoran Desert outside Tucson.  Surrounded with tires found nearby.

Buddha, 6 feet tall redwood, carved for Abayagiri Buddhist Center in Mendocino County.

Nude, three feet tall.

Horse heads, three feet tall, pine.

Mermaid, 4 feet tall, redwood.

Snow White, 4 feet tall

Lady of the Lake, 9 feet tall, pine, Idaho

Mike's Mother, as a child, 3 feet tall. redwood

Mother and Child, 6 feet tall, pine

Quan Yin, 9 feet tall, torrey pine, for the Los Angeles Zen Center

Child with dog, 3 feet tall, pine

Siskiyou County Museum, 6 feet tall, Redwood

Mahogany and jasper stone, 12" x 8", photos of a beautiful house.

Manifestations 1' x7", maple and charms, travel stories 

Manifestations 1' x7", maple and charms, travel stories 

Manifestations 1' x7", maple and bone amulets, travel stories 

Manifestations 1' x 8", black walnut and coral, travel stories 

Garden Goddess, welded steel, 7 feet tall

 

Below is one of the first videos I ever made.