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Climbing,
pruning, slicing, felling and shifting
the limbs and trunks of trees around London and
East Sussex has helped Joc Hare develop a
unique approach to utilising arboricultural waste
With
a wealth of experience handling big bits of wood and kit, plus a
resourcefully inventive imagination, Joc now combines his arboricultural
skills with wood sculpting. Based in a combined workshop and gallery in St
Leonards-on-Sea, tucked away amongst mews workshops, Joc produces stunning
and often playful work.
Many years spent chainsawing timber into short sections or slices for
removal during arboricultural operations, combined with a desire to make
good use of high quality, sometimes rare timber, gave Joc the raw materials
and fundamental inspiration for his sculpture. He has no formal wood-working
or art school training, resulting in a refreshing approach to reinventing
wood.
Joc purposefully leaves chunks of wood to season in the heat of the sun or
in front of his wood burner accelerating any movement and splitting - to let
the wood speak for itself - before he sculpts into a final form. He
ingeniously adapts workshop machinery to suit his sculpting needs – a
spindle moulder transformed into a vertical lathe, a sanding table into the
‘Parallelatron’ chainsaw mill.
The end result - a diverse range of products – often both
sculptural and useful, with an elegance that never ‘out-designs’ the
fundamental nature of the wood.
Visit
Joc’s weekly Jam
Gallery,
open every Saturday between 12 mid-day and 5pm and seek out his public work
in Summerfield Woods in Hastings - just behind the Hastings Museum (which is
also worth a visit to walk through the Brassey Durbar Hall, a beautifully
hand-carved teak Indian Palace created for the Colonial & Indian
Exhibition of 1886 at South Kensington).
Look out for Joc in East Sussex Wood Season 2005. Joc
Hare, 01424 434848, Unit 16 Harold Mews, Mews Road, St.Leonards on Sea,
www.logjam.net, logjam@logjam.net
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