Base Surface
The
material of my base plates is generally of stone, glass or wood.
When
I use stone, the preferred material of my choice is Nero Assolut, a pitchblack
stone of African origin that naturally has fine silvery veins going throughout
the stone. Alone or in conjunction with other stone types he presents an
imposing equivalent to the finely wrought trees. Also especially beautiful are
fine inlay works with other stones, in the type You are used to see with
intarsial wood inlays, which I already have effected with the Oak and the Fir
tree.
Already
more than 10 years I have a working relationship with an artistic stonemason
from Vienna, who helps me turn the ideas and propositions of myself and
my customers into reality.
Since
a wonderful encounter wit a glass artist from the famous little island of Murano,
near Venice, it has become possible for me also to order and use glass in the
most different colors and forms possible; the works of Claudio are really
remarkable.
Many
times in the past I could not realise some ideas, because there are limits to
the raw material stone. These limits I can surpass, with glass, or combinations
of glass and stone in any way thereof. Sometimes even, in combination, the two
materials extinguish each other´s limits, and so make possible an even more
phantastic design.
All
my works, aptfully named Art-trees, are pure artistry, are all only
one-of-a-kind unicates, and I never use a form or a combination of materials a
second time.