Favorite lathe chisels Gallery DuMaurier Bainbridge Pear, Big Leaf Maple Burl, Buckeye Burl& Box Elder Setting Nichols lathe Fresh Olive Entering two of my works in two Arizona shows Pen and pencil set Buffalo horn and Ivory GOT IRONWOOD
From my mind as a black man living in modern American social ills. Gerard Merchant was born in 1959 in Lynchburg, Virginia. My works are primarily in wood sculpture. My sculptures emerge through a process of retakes and variations that mark my creative journey of examining the ambiguity between my vision, and the wood’s already exquisite origination. As I execute unclear and less formal rules and which should always reference the partnership with Nature, we create Art.