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Laura Yeats

298 Pinneo Rd

Laura Yeats transforms fallen, diseased and unwanted trees into sculptural objects and works on paper: “You’ll see piles of logs, root balls, and gnarled limbs surrounding my studio. As I roll them around to study them, I wait patiently for my inspiration to be provoked – as if the tree itself may speak to me! I make exploratory cuts trusting that I will stumble upon what form will best express the tree’s inner beauty. My best creations come when I allow myself to work in isolation, where I can tune into the natural environment and hopefully gain insight and inspiration for my pieces. In my creative process, I seek the essence of beauty, simplicity, and purity, and as a result, my work is mostly free of adornment. I hope that what I create is both a pleasure to look at and a delight to hold, but also an accurate translation of my partnership with nature. I feel that my work radiates the nature of many things – growth and decay, inner beauty and outer, and collaborations between nature and humans. I hope that your experience of seeing my work will be akin to my experience of creating it – that of discovering Nature’s mystery and the soul of the tree.”