ANDREW CHAPMAN  FIRE – METAL – VISION: These three ingre­di­ents com­bine at the hands of Andrew Chap­man to cre­ate works of metal artistry. Tra­di­tional black­smithing tech­niques, using ham­mer and anvil, and artis­tic vision deeply rooted in mod­ern sculp­ture work together in each of Chapman’s hand­made works. Steel and cop­per, newly made or found object, all bend and flow under his ham­mer. He moves and molds the metal to his vision, mak­ing metal into all things imag­in­able. Leaves and branches from nature, well-crafted scrolls or clas­sic motifs, and mod­ern twists and turns that defy grav­ity all take shape on Chapman’s anvil. His pieces range from larger scale archi­tec­tural ele­ments and fur­ni­ture to small, flow­ing table top sculp­ture and hand­held objects.

RICH KOLB  In Ken­tucky Rich Kolb and his father cre­ated the first Yard­bird over twenty years ago. The first bird came about from talks about, and tin­ker­ing with, scrap mate­ri­als. Peo­ple instantly loved them! Today, Yard­birds are dec­o­ra­tive and func­tional ani­mal sculp­tures made from recy­cled metal. These unique and whim­si­cal crea­tures for the gar­den and home are full of personality!

BILL MERRITT  Bill Mer­ritt makes cop­per gar­den art in his Mis­souri garage stu­dio. His spe­cialty is hum­ming­bird feed­ers. The glass he uses in his art began life as some­thing else—soda bot­tles, vases, can­dle­sticks, gaz­ing balls, decanters, decanter tops, and some glass that even Bill can’t iden­tify. From com­mon to ele­gant, each is united with cop­per and repur­posed as a fun and func­tional one-of-a-kind work of art.

JONATHAN PARENTICE  Hand­crafted metal art fea­tur­ing whim­si­cal dec­o­ra­tive acces­sories for home and gar­den. Every piece begins with inspi­ra­tion from the spec­tac­u­lar nat­ural envi­ron­ment in Utah where Jonathan and Lynne Par­en­tice reside. The cou­ple states, “Our designs are inspired by the amaz­ing rock art and crit­ters of the canyons, then we infuse them with our own sense of motion (and humor, some­times) to give them life!”

ELAINE & BILL SNELL  Artists Elaine and Bill Snell of South Car­olina offers wall art, orna­ments and sculp­tures made from mild steel and cop­per. All of their art­work starts with an orig­i­nal draw­ing that is refined and trans­lated into a pat­tern. Pieces are cut from mild steel or cop­per with a plasma cut­ter. The intri­cate details are inspired by clas­sic paper cut techniques.

JUDY VILMAIN  Judy Vil­main of Rhode Island cre­ates an array of pewter pieces for the home, table and office from inspi­ra­tional paper­weights, to a pho­to­graph stand that will remind you daily of some­one you love. Vil­main cur­rently uses a wide range of mate­ri­als — includ­ing wood, alu­minum, pewter, and sil­ver. Pieces are some­times cre­ated to solve a very par­tic­u­lar prob­lem, like where to put the car keys, while other times inspi­ra­tion comes from out of the blue.