The connection to nature is stronger than if he just drew this image as nature has been used to create it and I definitely feel that when I look at his work. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

It was so dense and the annual growth rings were so close together that they could not be accurately counted beyond two hundred. Gill used recycled lumber, covered it with ink and paper and pressed and scratched the wood pattern on the paper with his fingers. Like a fingerprint, each impression becomes individual, revealing a personality, a sensitivity to the skin. These impressions highlight the complexity of the forms, almost mathematical, the fineness of the lines and the texture of the wood that becomes purely graphic. I am often on the look-out for notecards that don't fall into any of the medium's typical expectations.

A Baren made of Hornbeam, (also known as Ironwood) and a Bamboo disc baren made with a Bamboo leaf and a recycled record player dust cleaner.

I send a LOT of snail mail, several letters a day, so I have a large collection of cards and these are in my Top 3 for certain. He is printing over a period of time and you can see and feel the slight changes in the texture or mushrooms growing on it.

Earlier stints include the American Film Institute, Clinton-Gore White House, and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. The nature and trees around him have always been an creational source for him, not only are they beautiful from the outside at but also when you try to investigate a look inside. He has shown his sculpture, drawings and installations at many exhibitions and galleries across the United States. Dendrology, the study of trees, a science that has given us historical data about our global environment and forever-changing climate.

Cleaning the space in preparation for a new work doesn’t exist anymore, which had always been the case in my smaller studios. Also featured are Gill's series of printed lumber and offcuts, such as burls, branches, knots, and scrubs.In 1984 he graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, [1] with a focus on glassblowing.

Some of his other sculptures include Twins (2000), a bronze cast of two conjoined saplings, and Blow Down (2002), a skinned and flattened spruce tree mounted on a wall. Its engagement is to understand his place in this world in this time, which he has to participate as a record of his connection to it.

In his prints you can see the natural beauty of the earth and its plants and creatures and the natural unique fingerprints and stories they tell in their texture, if you just listen carefully. Woodcut will appeal to anybody who appreciates the grandeur and mystery of trees, as well as those who work with wood and marvel at the rich history embedded in its growth.