The Bird Carver

Welcome to The Bird Carver ~ Kerry Smith

Thanks for visiting the bird carver website.  There is a bunch of information scattered about.  I try to give some of my thought process in doing my art pieces and reflect about what is going on inside of me, that is between the ears and in my heart.  There are items for sale, a portfolio and other tidbits.  In the days ahead I will have links for you to click on that will take you to suppliers and other artists.  Click on the art pieces and you can get a closer look.  Feel free to ask, ‘how do you do that?’  Look around and know that it ain’t finished yet, neither this webpage, me or my works.

A reality, I suppose, is that we make this thing called art something that I am not sure of what it is? Make any sense? Okay, we try to make that which is nothing, or once something and no longer, paint, canvas, wood, metal, stone, into a something. There it is, unfinished, yet finished for a little while, maybe, alive, breathing, a song. I think of this block of wood that once was a tree, knowing that I cannot add anything to this wood that made it once what it was so beautiful, so purposeful, yet attempt I must. So this thing that I make becomes a song, and I hear it, like you hear something, a baby’s cry, the crash of the waves, the breathe of your lover, whoever that may be, and it sings with notes that are so beautiful and soothing. Here in lies art - and in it we are all artists, for with our hands we do that which is divine, as divine as that God that made us and counts the hairs on our head or the grains of sand - and who by the never way, calls out to us, and says, be an artist!