Bat Mobile

Here are a couple pics of my entry for The Dart Gallery's Batman-themed show, "Biff! Pow! Art!", on til June 12th.  The show theme was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the classic Batman tv series and features many excellent pieces by local artists.

In order to bend the theme into my own art practice, here is "Bat Mobile", comprised of 4 papier mache bats (made from Chronicle Herald newspapers), a couple lichen-covered branches and 3 pine cones from the woods around our place, and some string...

There's something very satisfying about mixing my sculptures with actual bits of nature, and trying to sell sticks and pine cones in an urban gallery.  Here's another pic taken before the strings were shortened, the bats are posed a bit better in this one.  Both pics were taken in a living room window at our home. 
 

Now that the weather is warm, I've slowly been working on ceramic pieces for my first firing of 2016, sometime in June, which will include some new items for Jenny Jib down in Lunenburg as well as crow sculptures "Murder of Crows" -  a show coming up in July at Dart Gallery that will feature the crow art of Lee Cripps.