Patrick Dougherty

Patrick Dougherty just astonishes me! Somehow he can bend, weave, and tangle twigs and branches to create works of art inseparable from nature and the landscape around it. He makes shapes and forms evoking some of my favorite nature made treasures like nests and cocoons and because he is using organic matter to construct these stick sculptures, they eventually disintegrate and fade back into the landscape, uniting with nature once again. His first book Stickwork, features thirty-eight of his fantastical at times gravity defying works.