I design and fabricate custom iron gates, fence panels and murals for residential and commercial clients. I work directly with clients and collaborate with architects, interior/exterior designers, engineers and other visual artists when necessary to best serve my clients.

Since 1976, I have worked as a clay artist/studio potter. At present, I make tall clay vessels, clay and mixed media sculptural forms and large platters. At times, these serve as surfaces for drawing and painting with oxide stains and glazes. My subjects are varied, from contemporary forms to horses, flora, human and anthropomorphic abstractions. I especially enjoy the challenge of 2 dimensional drawing on a 3 dimensional form. A drawing that defies the rules of 2D perspective yet reads right to our eye and is aesthetically appealing and evocative.

In all my work I seek an aesthetic about the sensuousness of seeing. Of pursuing new and magical ways of perceiving and appreciating what is already here. Perhaps we may be nudged to see ourselves in new contexts. Dare to ask of ourselves what else could be and have the courage to wait expectantly for a reply. To find an intimacy with the structure of our physical world, beyond knowing facts, to a glimpse of the spiritual, the magicalness of not knowing and still feeling safe. Of experiencing, if but for a moment, something terrible, real and wonderful just beyond our grasp.

I attempt to introduce these ideas into my work, giving the viewer opportunity to become at once spectator and participant in a shared and ongoing creative act. To this end, I do not attempt to explain my work with narrative titles. Suffice that each work has a solid aesthetic presence while being open as material for further investigation and manipulation by the imaginations and spontaneous playfulness of others. A work savored more fully.


David Woof
Artist Statement