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One of Gill's first works after he resettled in Connecticut was a sculpture composed of 42 upside-down hanging Christmas trees. Gill's work has been displayed at the New Britain Museum of American Art and DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and he was commissioned to create installations for Expo 2005 in Japan and the World Financial Center in New York.

I am experimenting with creating tools using nature to draw and paint with and even though Bryan hasn’t made the tool here, it is still a natural material applying paint to the paper surface.The prints are beautiful, the paper is a nice weight, they’re large and allow for a lot of writing, there is also a blurb on the back of each card. An exhibition by the same name, composed of 30 of Gill's prints, was displayed at the Chicago Botanic Garden in early 2013. I wasn’t to far from where I grew up and there was lots of space where I could continue my studio work.

Bryan Nash Gill (November 3, 1961 – May 17, 2013) was an American artist who worked primarily with wood, in the form of relief prints and sculptures. Cleaning the space in preparation for a new work doesn’t exist anymore, which had always been the case in my smaller studios. I was drawn to the different sizes of logs and tree cuts he uses to print from and how much detail he encapsulates into the result.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. Some found objects find their way into a piece and others into the trash; depending on how long I’ve been staring at them. His early works were mainly abstract metal sculptures, but over time he increasingly began to work with wood instead of metal.

So when I speak of,” beyond the landscape”, I am referring to your own landscape, or more simply, “it is whatever you imagine. Most of his woodcuts were created from dead or damaged tree parts that he collected and took to his studio to prepare cross-sections of the wood for relief printing. He was a fellow of the California Arts Council and twice received grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.It was so dense and the annual growth rings were so close together that they could not be accurately counted beyond two hundred. Gill found that things were more beautiful and complex inside than what was visible from the outside. 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. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Bryan Nash Gill is Best Known for his prints taken from tree trunks/logs, capturing all the detail of the pieces of wood including the inner rings and outer bark layers. 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 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.