I design and build furniture and sculptures for garden, home and offices. I rent/loan sculptures to Letting agents and shop outlets. Please inbox me for more details.
Brad Quarless - Artist Statement 2016
My sculptures reflect a strong relationship between what I call the “three keys” to my work. Some of works have to spend up to three years drying before I can begin to process and carve. Patience and planning ahead is key to my workflow. No two sculptures are created in the same way. Every piece is individual in both the working process and the finish sculpture. A tree is an individual it has a personality and a set of growing traits, my job is to understand that history and work with it. I started creating sculptures and installations on beaches from an early age along the Merseyside coastline. I have always had a strong connection with the Rivers and beaches, watching how they change over each season. The aim of my work is to act without changing the energy within the wood, to almost bend it and see how it and if allows me to push its boundary’s. Most of my works are freeform sculptures and sculptured furniture or small abstract forms representing people or animals. What drives me is the process of seeing inside the wood and its hidden shapes. I collect wood around the seasons and hold the drying process as an important part of creating a sculpture. A strong part of my work is to create sculptures that ask to explored and touched by the viewer. This also helps to encourage awareness of its history memory through it shapes and markings in the final piece. The complexity of wood grain and its natural ability to still move once carved means that the sculpture are still alive they still change, twist and turn based on their environment. There are subtleties of carving in my work which are part of the memory of the place of collection, the people with me, time of day, light and the struggle to get the wood from it resting place to my workshop!. The prayer said to thank the tree for allowing me to find it. Every piece I create is a journey, never being sure of exactly what I am going to create, or how it may change me or my working practice. Working with many types of wood including driftwood or naturally felled timers and tree vines. I also incorporate found objects into my works such as sea glass and industrial items sometimes found at the location of the wood. The things which attract me to each piece of timber and the final sculptures are all closely related. My sculptures are an intensification of nature. By this I mean that the works I create, the process of taking from a natural object, the qualities which seem most beautiful to me, and expanding those qualities, to refine them. Brad Quarless
