The House Band 52 x 55 Bas Relief - Wood $4,800

King Of Hearts - Bas Relief - Wood

King Of Hearts - Bas Relief - Wood

Tall Super Model 44" x 20" Bas Relief - Wood $2,400

Black Vase On A Table III 48" x 16 1/2" Bas Relief - Wood $2,800

Flutter 20" x 36 Bas Relief - Wood

Good Luck Charm 18" x 38 Bas Relief - Wood

Alan Boileau — My earliest recollections of my desire to create bas relief artworks in wood are as a teenager in an industrial arts class, when I happened upon an Italian design magazine that featured several life-size, raw wood sculptures set in gardens throughout Europe. I was so inspired by these works done by a group of young artisans, and seeing parallels between the sculptures and my own aspirations, I soon began creating my own two and three dimensional wall sculptures in wood. My methods and imagery have sure changed over the years of school, studio and work experiences between then and now, but I still enjoy and seem to require reflecting back to those original pieces when creating today. I've been fortunate to live amongst magnificent forests, from the thick hardwoods of the East, where I grew up, to the tall softwoods around my adopted Western home; I have always been in awe of the trees. I observe significant beauty in the way a tree can survive growing out of a rock, how branches will grow in any direction in an effort to find nourishment, or how an invading beetle leaves behind it's markings in what I see as natural hieroglyphics. The eastern Canadian white pine that I generally use to create my artwork tells its own story; the elemental forms and forces in nature drive a lot of my original ideas and fuel my belief that wood has a continuous energy of its own. My work might start out as a larger cut material form, an initial draft of shape or movement, to form the basis of my next idea. Later, the finer details fill in. Often, the symbols and pattern shapes that reappear in my work originate in response to the idea that every shape initiates a sensory response as it communicates to our senses. Thus I am very careful to always be aware of the amount of pattern and relief that I am creating in any area; as to me there is so fine a line between too much projection, which can appear weighty, and the uneventfulness of too little relief. The significance of over repetition or being too random, too much color or too little, not enough texture or too much, are some of the considerations that will define an artist if not well considered. Through my art, I aim to inform the viewer about my passion for beauty, my life and experiences, firstly on a physical, dimensional level and hopefully on a less conscious level, where their responses to matter and relationships to shape and color originate. At the same time I strive to celebrate and enhance the living spirit of the wood in each work of art. Alan accepts custom commissions. Please contact the gallery for more information.