Archive for the 'Agate Work' Category

21 inch Brazilian Agate lamp

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Standing 21 inches tall and 14 inches across this little gem is made of polished Brazilian agate and accented with whole polished Lake Superior agate pebbles. The top is very open made up of copper sculpture vine work cascading down to the agate slabs and ending with the Lake Superior agate pebbles. It is illuminated [...]

Petrified Wood Vine Lamp 26 Inches Tall

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Here is my latest Vine Lamp and is made of copper sculpture and thinly sliced petrified wood. I loved making this lamp as it is so free form. I start with a base or “ground” and start growing the lamp without knowing how it will turn out. It is all one piece without the usual [...]

Agate Vine Copper Sculpture Door

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

This project is a copper sculpture vine with Montana Moss agate and is the front exterior door of a condominium in Hamel MN, a suburb of Minneapolis. It is inserted in a steel door that had a full view glass panel taken out and replaced with this copper clad artwork. There is an agate vine [...]

Petrified wood table lamp

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Here is a lamp with a shade made of thinly sliced petrified wood. This agatized wood is used in place of glass and situated among copper sculpture vine like branches. The base is a copper sculpture thick gnarled looking vine growing over and around whole petrified wood rocks twisting up to support the shade. This [...]

Montana Moss Agate Vine

Monday, October 27th, 2008

This lamp gives the effect of a thick, gnarled vine growing up to produce vining branches with Moss Agate leaves. The “shade” part of the lamp is entirely made of Montana Moss Agates forming three clusters illuminated by three 60 watt fluorescent bulbs. I find that these fluorescent bulbs make most stained glass lamps look [...]