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Since I was a boy, I can remember collecting interesting pieces of wood or stone from nature. My grandparents, who were artists and raised me from mid-childhood, used to travel regularly overland to Switzerland in a VW Caravanette. My grandfather would often stop to paint a landscape, sometimes for 2 days or so, and I would be left to run free in the woods or by the rivers , making dams or carving for hours on my own.

As I grew up I tried my hand at many things including business , carpentry , garden landscaping and so on. But I never lost the drive to travel, with an insatiable curiosity for other lands and the people who occupy them.

While travelling around the Mediterranean and North Africa, I discovered amazing pieces of driftwood, some of these pieces are olive tree trunks. Because of the way the trees are traditionally pruned by the farmers , the trunks are very knarled and twisted making them beautiful to look at. Added to this texture they have a bleached colour created by years spent lying in the powerful Mediterranean sun.

When I saw these pieces of wood they touched my soul as nothing had before, and I had visions of them as sculptures and features in all kinds of settings.
Contact Joe Hooper: Email seagulljoe@driftedfeatures.com ~ Phone +44 (0) 20 7691 1648 ~ Mobile +44 (0) 7713 186 030