Island Time:

I began by looking at a carved antique screen in which the images consisted of people in various garden settings. As much as we all love gardens on Vancouver Island, I like to think of my surroundings as wild. The antique screen had frames to support the carvings. To me frames, or fences, are only appropriate for nature shown as a garden. For nature as wild, there cannot be fences or walls. I had to make my screen so that the carving would support itself, as nature sustains herself.

This trifold screen depicts objects in nature that mark time for us here on Vancouver Island.The top part of the screen, made of pacific yew, represents the cloud we often see from Sooke Harbour, as it arches over East Sooke during the afternoons from mid summer through late summer. The soaring bird in the center represents the turkey vultures that arrive from the south in the spring and gather for departure in the fall. The kelp represents the daily changes and the seasons of the sea.

Island Time is carved from Yellow Cedar and Pacific Yew. Dimensions 54" high and approximately 60" wide.

Island Time won a first prize in 3-d art at the inaugural Sidney Fine Arts show in 2003.

Sold: $6500.00