Artwork details
- Medium : Wood With Stand
- Dimensions : Length: 8in, Height: 22in, Depth: 5in
About this artwork
Sometimes you can feel beauty welling up from inside; such luminosity colors everything you see, touch, hear and feel. Belle was created during such feelings, impelled by an urge to bring beauty into the world. Belle's flowers were created by layers upon layers of transparent paint on tissue, with the body made of various cactus root and fibers, along with other plant materials found in the southwestern desert of America's borderlands, mounted on…
petrified wood. Many hours went into its creation, from digging sun baked, dry root and cactus fibers out of the desert, to scrubbing, scouring, peeling, hollowing and hand smoothing, with dozens of layers treatment. May Belle illuminate your life as it has Nath's.
Nath Raye
United States
Credentials
- Established Artist
- Experienced Artist
- Residency Participant
- Works on commission
« The need to sculpt surges into my hands; merging inspiration with political, glorious mother earth with humanity. Connecting us, you and I. »
Nath Raye is an acclaimed artist from the United States whose work has been featured in international publications. She discovered the healing properties of art after recovering from a spinal injury by collecting sun baked cactus carcasses in the desert and turning this raw material into sculptures. Inspired by the beauty of nature, each piece Raye crafts is made from a natural piece of wood or fiber found in the desert.