Wildlife and natural history artist Karen Carr

Written By Robin Wade

Wildlife and natural history artist Karen Carr

Wildlife and natural artist Karen CarrWhat a pleasure it was visiting with famed wildlife and natural history artist Karen Carr and her husband Ralph while in Montgomery last weekend.  From New Mexico, Karen's work in "The Land of Alabama" exhibit brought us thousands of years +++ back in time as we walked thru time.  Really amazing work.  Karen works on professional projects throughout the U.S as well as abroad.  Her work can be seen in Museums, The Smithsonian, The Field Museum and on and on and on.

I hope to see more of Karen and Ralph through the year, possibly during phase two of the Museum of Alabama, or who knows.

It's still great fun making new friends, particularly when we share a creative passion.

Wildlife and natural history artist Karen Carr

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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